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    The document provides an overview of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the modern period. It discusses the main characteristics of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages, including the rise of polyphony. The Renaissance saw a rebirth of Greek and Roman culture and the growth of instrumental music. The Baroque period featured highly ornamented music with sudden changes. The Classical period favored simplicity and emotion control. Romantic music told stories and overwhelmed listeners with passion. The modern period saw experimentation with atonality and electronic music. Music serves artistic, ceremonial, and recreational purposes.

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    The document provides an overview of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the modern period. It discusses the main characteristics of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages, including the rise of polyphony. The Renaissance saw a rebirth of Greek and Roman culture and the growth of instrumental music. The Baroque period featured highly ornamented music with sudden changes. The Classical period favored simplicity and emotion control. Romantic music told stories and overwhelmed listeners with passion. The modern period saw experimentation with atonality and electronic music. Music serves artistic, ceremonial, and recreational purposes.

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    The document provides an overview of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the modern period. It discusses the main characteristics of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages, including the rise of polyphony. The Renaissance saw a rebirth of Greek and Roman culture and the growth of instrumental music. The Baroque period featured highly ornamented music with sudden changes. The Classical period favored simplicity and emotion control. Romantic music told stories and overwhelmed listeners with passion. The modern period saw experimentation with atonality and electronic music. Music serves artistic, ceremonial, and recreational purposes.

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    HISTORY OF

    MUSIC
    Middle Ages / Medieval
    450 – 1450
    Sacred Music
    • Mostly vocal music until 1100
    • After 1100, the church allowed instruments to be played.
    • The organ was the most popular then.
    • Most notated music was sacred
    • Why? The church had control over learning.
    • Most composers were anonymous because they were
    taught that it was wrong to take credit and brag about
    their works. They were taught that God would be
    unhappy with them.
    Middle Ages / Medieval
    450 – 1450
    • Secular music – non-religious
    • Troubadours traveled the country, singing
    their love songs.
    • They used drums, bagpipes, harps, and
    recorders.
    • Why do you think they didn’t notate their
    music?
    Middle Ages / Medieval
    •Gregorian Chant: The earliest music of
    the Middle Ages was sung slowly and
    without rhythm or harmony. Everyone
    sang the same thing.
    •These tunes are also called Gregorian
    Chant, which were named after Pope
    Gregory I.
    Middle Ages / Medieval
    •Polyphony: Later on other musical
    lines were added, creating harmony.
    This is also called polyphonic music.
    •This is music for more than one voice
    and it appeared during the later
    Medieval period. This marked the
    beginning of harmony.
    Gregorian Chant doesn’t have any
    instruments playing with it. This song is
    religious. The color of this song is orange,
    because it is mellow.
    Renaissance
    •Renaissance means “rebirth”- in this case,
    it was a rebirth of Greek and Roman
    culture.
    •It lasted from 1450-1600.
    •The middle and upper classes hired people
    to educate their children.
    •The printing press was invented and
    popularized the music of great composers.
    Renaissance Music
    •Most Renaissance music is
    polyphonic – two or more voices
    being heard with different rhythms.
    •Near the end of the Renaissance,
    chordal (tone) music appeared. The
    voices moved together in chords.
    Instrumental Music
    •There was a growth in instrumental
    music, especially the lute and
    keyboard. The most popular
    instrument of the Renaissance was
    the lute.
    •Most instrumental music was
    written for singing and dancing.
    Baroque
    •1600-1750
    •Baroque refers to highly decorated
    music and art.
    •Unity – repeating rhythms and melodic
    patterns
    •Sudden dynamic and tempo changes
    •Music was ornamented and improvised.
    Baroque Music
    •Orchestras begin to form
    •Opera develops
    •Was written for and heard only by kings
    and nobility and the Church
    •Venice, Italy was the center of Baroque
    music
    •Piano was the most popular instrument.
    Classical Period
    •The Classical period began around
    1750 and lasted until 1830.
    •This was also when the United
    States was founded by Benjamin
    Franklin.
    Music of the Classical
    Period
    •Music was simpler to play than Baroque
    music.
    •Music was written for everyone.
    •Common people began attending concerts.
    •Emotions were controlled in the music.
    •There were not extremes in tempo,
    dynamics, etc. like in the Baroque period.
    Classical Music
    •Orchestras were small, around
    40 people, at the beginning of
    this period. They grew larger
    near the end.
    Romantic Period
    •The Romantic period began around
    1830 and ended around 1900.
    •there were some overlaps between the
    classical period and romantic period.
    •In fact, Beethoven bridged the two
    periods during his lifetime.
    Romantic Music
    • Program music tells a story or describes something.

    • Music is filled with passion and drama.


    • Composers used music to overwhelm listeners with
    emotion, writing sad, sweeping pieces about love
    and heartbreak and magical fantasies about
    goblins, witches, and swans.
    • The orchestra is arranged as we know it and was
    led by a conductor with a baton.
    • The most popular instrument was the piano.
    Modern
    Period
    1900 – Present
    Neoclassical

    •Composer: Aaron Copland


    •Uses techniques used in Baroque
    and Classical periods
    •Opposition to current musical
    trends
    Modern Review
    • A time of musical experimentation
    • Electronic music becomes a main
    focus
    • Atonality – Music without a tonal
    center
    • Broken into Currents
    Purposes of Music
    •Artistic
    •Ceremonial
    •Recreational
    Artistic
    •Artistically performed music is a re-
    creation of what the composer meant by
    putting notes on paper, allowing the
    performer to breathe life into the
    composition. The performer strives for
    musical perfection in degrees such as,
    phrases, shapes, dynamics, and adhering
    to the style of music with minimal
    mistakes in notes, pitch and rhythms.
    Ceremonial
    •Ceremonial music ranges from the
    performance of the Bridal Chorus at a
    wedding to Hail the Chief to signify the
    entrance of the President of the United States.
    It is music that accompanies ceremonies and
    rituals. This type of music is played for
    funerals, commemorative ceremonies,
    graduations, political events, religious rituals,
    holidays, celebrations, and similar functions.

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