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Greek music is the main part of the ancient Greek theater. In ancient Greece, mixed gender choir performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Aulos instruments including double-reed instruments and plucked strings, harp, in particular a special type called a kithara. Music is an important part of education in ancient Greece, and the children were taught music starting at age six. Greek musical literacy make a flowering of development; Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, eventually became the basis for Western religious music and classical music. Then, the influence of the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music.
During Medieval music era (500-1400), only European repertory which survive from before about 800 is the monophonic liturgical plainsong of the Roman Catholic Church, called the center of the tradition of Gregorian chant. In addition to the sacred tradition and the churchthere is a vibrant musical tradition of secular song. Examples of composers from this period is Lonin, Protin and Guillaume de Machaut. From the Renaissance music era (14001600), a lot of live music from 14th-century Europe is secular. In the mid-15th century, composers and singers using smooth polyphony for sacred musical compositions. The introduction of commercial printing helped to spread the music style is faster and in larger areas. Leading composers of this era, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thomas Morley and Orlande de Lassus.
Allegory of Music, by Filippino Lippi
The Baroque music era (16001750) begins when the opera was first written and when contrapuntal music became common. German Baroque composers wrote for small ensembles including strings, brass, and woodwinds, as well as choirs, pipe organ, piano, and clavichord. During the Baroque period, several major music forms a clear, that hested with a term later, when they grow and develop further, including the fugue, invention, sonatas, and concertos. Composers from the Baroque era, including Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann. Music Classical period (17501800) is marked by homophonic texture, often featuring prominent melody with accompaniment. These new melodies tended to almost voice-like and singable. Instrumental music popular now dominated by further evolution of musical forms initially defined in the Baroque period: the sonata, and concerto, with the addition of a new form, the symphony. Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical period’s central character.
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