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A LOOK AT MUSICAL ERAS AND THE COMPOSERS WHO SHAPED THEM.
BY REBECCA HUDELSON
Music Through the Ages
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Here is a list of Musical Eras:
AntiquityMedievalRenaissanceBaroqueClassicalRomantic20th CenturyContemporary
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Antiquity
Dates: ?B.C.-500A.D.Very little is known about
the composers or their music at this time.
One of the few examples is The Epitaph of Seikilos, composer unknown. This song was written on a tombstone with these words:
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“I am a tombstone, an image. Seikilos placed me here as an everlasting sign of deathless remembrance.”
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Medieval
Dates: 500A.D.-1400
Two of the notable composers: Léonin Francesco Landini
Well-known instrument of the time:The Pan Flute
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Léonin
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Dates: 1150-1201? More info
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“The father of polyphonic organum”.
Francesco Landini
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Dates: 1325?- 1397
More info on this
composerLandini lead the
“Italian ars nova”.
Renaissance
Dates: 1400-1600
Two of the notable composers: Josquin Des Prez Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Well-known instrument of the time:The Lyre
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Josquin Des Prez
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Dates: 1450?-1521 More info
on this composerThe first
master of polyphonic vocal music.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Dates: 1525?-1594 More info
on this composerThe Italian
of the Renaissance
Baroque
Dates: 1600-1760
Two of the notable composers: Johann Sebastian Bach George Friderich Händel
Well-known instrument of the time:The Harpsichord
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Dates: 1685-1750More info
on this composerBrought the
Baroque period to its ultimate
maturity.
George Friderich Händel
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Dates: 1685-1759More info
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“Cosmopolitan”
Baroque
Classical
Dates: 1730-1820
Two of the notable composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven
Well-known instrument of the time:The Clarinet
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Dates: 1756-1791
Over 600 works in less
than 40 years.
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composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Dates: 1770-1827
The transition from classical to
romantic:
pushing the listeners’ limits.
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composer
Romantic
Dates: 1815-1910
Who were the notable composers? Richard Wagner Hector Berlioz
Well-known instrument of the time:The Piano
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Richard Wagner
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Dates: 1813-1883
The father of chromaticism
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Hector Berlioz
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Dates: 1803-1869
The troubled master of fantasy.
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20th Century
Dates: 1900-2000
Who were the notable composers? Claude Debussy Igor Stravinsky
Subcategories: Neoclassical Impressionist Expressionist
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Claude Debussy
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Dates: 1862-1918
Tonality and
beyond!
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composer
Igor Stravinsky
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Dates: 1882-1971
A composition
of every kind.
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composer
Contemporary
Dates: 1975-present
Two of the notable composers: John Cage Steve Reich
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•Subcategories:oPostmodernismoElectronicoMinimalism
John Cage
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Dates: 1912-1992
The pioneer of post-war avant-
garde.
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composer
Steve Reich
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Dates: 1936-present
The master of minimalism.
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