Western music timeline

Western music timeline

Example of Opera Music

Baroque Period

Instruments

Opera

Renaissance 1450-1600

Strings:

Percussion:

• Violin
• Cello
• Bass

Woodwinds:

• Marimba
• Xylophone
• Bells
• Gongs
• Timpani

About Baroque Music

Baroque music

Delibes- Flower Duet

• Flute
• Clarinet
• Oboe
• Bassoon
• Saxophone (sometimes)

Composers created new instrumental playing techniques

About the renaissance

Brass:

Martin Luther

This era followed the Renaissance period

Age of enlightenment

• Horns
• Trumpets
• Trombones
• A Tuba

Martin Luther was born November 10 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. He was a catholic priest that changed Christianity because of his involvement in the protestant reformation

Secular music began

Barque means misshapen pearl

A big part of classical music

Madrigal/poetry

The Italian word opera means "work", meaning both hard labour and a piece of finshed result. Defane by Jacopo Peri was the earliest piece of opera music according to history. Opera is still being composed today and is still popular in countries. Each of the instument familes correspond with the four familes of the voice; bass,tenor,alto, and soprano.

Word painting

Magicians

What is the Renaissance

The Renaissance period was simply a new birth to Europe. People began to abandon things and ideas from the middle ages and come up with more new and improved things

Famous Opera Composers

Alessandro Scarlatti

From Naples Italy

Famous for his operas and chamber cantatas

Born 1660

Found Neapolitan school of opera

Instraments used

John Farmer

Key words

Woodwinds

Strings

• Richard Wanger (1813-1883)
• Giacomo Puccini(1858-1924)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791)

Brasses

Born in 1570

Cornett

Natural horn

Baroque trumpet

Tromba da tirarsi (also called tromba spezzata)

Flatt trumpet

Serpent

Sackbut

Trombone

Baroque flute

Chalumeau

Cortol (also known as Cortholt, Curtall, Oboe family)

Dulcian

Musette de cour

Baroque oboe

Rackett

Recorder

Bassoon

Motets- became sacred

Mass- was sacred

Council of Trent- (1545-1563) - This was a group of people from all over that would come together to discus what they have found

Was organist and master of children at Christ church Cathedral in Dublin

Violino piccolo

Violin

Viol

Viola

Viola d'amore

Viola pomposa

Tenor violin

Cello

Contrabass

Lute

Theorbo

Archlute

Angélique

Mandolin

Guitar

Harp

Hurdy-gurdy

Also was organist at St. Patricks Cathedral

Percussion

Keyboards

Published a collection of four part madrigals

Baroque timpani

Wood snare drum

Tenor drum

Tambourine

Castanets

Clavichord

Tangent piano

Fortepiano – early version of piano

Harpsichord

Organ

A Piece of his music

1450

1600's

1760-1900's

476AD

1870-1920

1830-1860

1750-1820

Classical

Middle Ages

476-1450

Early Romantic

Impression

Example of the Music

Instruments

Famous Composers

Mozart

Example of Mozart's Music

Facts about Mozart

• He was born in Salzburg

• He composed over 600 works

• In 1781, he moved to Vienna and stayed there for the rest of his life.

• By the age of 5 he could read and write music, then at the age of 6 he wrote his first compositions.

• Mozart found it had to stay wealty and would live in pocwerty for sometime.

Gregorian Chant

Early romantic music used a collaberation of woodwind instruments like contrabasson, bass clarinet, piccolo as well as percussion instruments such as xylophones, drums, celestes, harps, bells, and triangles.

Life in the Middle ages

• Monet
• Manet
• Renoir
• Degas

476-1450

• Mozart showed prodigious ablitiy from his early childhood. He showed alot of intrest in the violin and piano, and learned to play them at a very young age. His music is known worldwide and popular in this society.

Began with Shape notes

There was no singing with instrument in the church

What is the middle ages

Mozart's life

mozarts actual full name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart heard Gregorio Allergri's preform in the Sistine Chapel whem visiting the Vatican. At the age of 14, he asprired to write first opera - Mitridte Re di Ponto. Later in life, Mozart gave beetoven music lessons for 2 weeks. Mozart died of kidney failure in Vienna, Austrialia on December 5, 1791

Impressionist music are most identified by the titles of the songs such as "The Snow Is Dancing", which is desciptive.

The middle ages were also called the dark ages or medieval times.

During this time there was depopulation and many diseases. This time period began with the collapse of the western roman empire .

Famous Romantic Composers

Hildegard

Motet

She was known as "Sybil of the Rhine"

Hildegar wrote hynms

a polyphonic choral composition on a sacred text usually without instrumental accompaniment

Overall Information

The Four Movments

first known composer

• Lugwig Van Beethoven (1970-1827)-German, Symphony No. 5

• Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841)- Italian

• Édouard Du Puy (1770-18221)-Swiss

• Anton Reicha (1770-1836)-Czech-born French

Main composers

• Classical music is often organized into four movements which follow a certain pattern.

She wrote music in single vocal melodic line

First Movement

Instuments

Example of Music

• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827

First movement was written to be a fast paced music and in allegro form.

Many classical composers are known by everyone world wide. During the classical period, studies show that there was a rise in the middle class, allowing them to afford intruments.Classical music became more populary played in an ensemble, such as symphony, concerto, and sonata. Very first classical music was based on secular styled music and played most often in the church in the 12th century.

Second Movement

The second movement was slower and in sontata and ternary form. Second movement is has the slowest tempo of all four movement.

These composers were brilliant and amazing. They are all still know in todays society.

Third Movement

Third movement wasn't as fast the the first but not as slow as the second movement. The third movement is also in trio form and has strong instumental harminzation.

Fourth Movement

The fourth movement is in rando form and is most likely written to be a faster tempo

• Flutes
• Clarinets
• Violins
• Trumpets
• Horns
• Harp
• Triangle

Erik Saite-Gymnopedie