Musical Time Periods

Designed for 7th grade general music class by John L. Madas

Just Imagine

The 7 Music Time Periods

Antiquity c. 400-800 Medieval 800-1400 Renaissance 1400-1600

Baroque 1600-1750
Classical 1750-1820 Romantic 1820-1900 Contemporary 1900-Present

Why?

Antiquity
c. 450-800 No known composers Gregorian chant

Medieval
800-1400
Composers: Guillaume de Machaut

and John Dunstable

Sacred Music/Secular Music

Renaissance
1400-1600
Renaissance - Rebirth Composers: Claudio Monteverdi,

William Byrd, Thomas Morley, and Giovanni Palestrina.

Renaissance Fairs

Baroque
1600-1750
Basso Continuo and Ornamentation Composers: J.S. Bach, George

Fredrick Handel, and Antonio Vivaldi

Newtons law of gravity

Classical
1750-1820
Known as the Age of

Enlightenment

Composers: Joseph Haydn,

Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven

Famous American War?,

Printing Press

Romantic
1820-1900
Personal Feeling/Emotion Composers: Claude

Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn, and Richard Wagner.

Civil War (1861-1864)

Contemporary
1900-Present

Scientific Age
Composers: Arnold

Schoenberg, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Charles Ives

Cars, Airplanes,

Computers, Medical Advancements, etc.

Acrostic
All Men Read Books Containing Radical Characters

Timeline

Click here to access the Musical Time Periods time line!

How about those numbers?

Starting Year ONLY ONE!! 450 800 1400 1600 1750 1820

1900

Sequence
Long/Short Time Differences

Antiquity 450-800: 350 Years!

Medieval 800-1400: 400 Years!

Baroque 1600-1750: 150 Years

Classical 1750-1820 70 Years

Romantic 1820-1900 80 Years

Contemporary 1900-Present 110 Years

Quiz Time
Can you name all the periods? Dont forget to

use your memory devices.

Antiquity Medieval Renaissance

Baroque
Classical Romantic Contemporary

Quiz Time
What is the first musical Time Period? Antiquity

What is the last musical Time Period?

Contemporary

Quiz Time
Can you list the STARTING dates for the time periods? 450 800 1400 1600 1750 1820

1900

Next class, we will be listening to music examples from each time period and you will be commenting on how the music sounds.

Credits
Reading Student Picture:

http://www.clipartpal.com/clipart_pd/education/readin gbook_11108.html http://www.luc.edu/faculty/pgraha1/womeninantiquity/ wiasyllabus.htm http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~west~medieval.html http://karenswhimsy.com/renaissance-clothing.shtm http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Antonio_Vivaldi_bar oque-composer-artist.html?q=magnum

Antiquity Picture:

Medieval Picture:

Renaissance Picture:

Baroque Picture:

Credits
Classical Picture:

http://woodside.blogs.com/cosmologycuriosity/2008/01 /off-topic-free.html http://www.gkb.k12.in.us/17062098194154320/cwp/brow se.asp?a=3&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=54496&17062098 194154320Nav=|&NodeID=69

Contemporary Picture:

Opening Slide: http://blogs.voices.com/buzz/2008/07/ Civil War Picture:

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civilwar/1864/june/civil-war-battle.htm

Credits
All information taken from

www.essentialsofmusic.com

Timeline created on www.xtimeline.com