Musical time periods

Musical Time PeriodsDesigned for 7th grade general music class byJohn 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

Newton’s 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 Period’s time line!

How about those numbers? Starting Year – ONLY ONE!!

450 800

1600

1400

1750 1820 1900

Sequence

Long/Short Time Differences

Medieval 800-1400: 400 Years!

Baroque 1600-1750: 150 Years

Antiquity 450-800: 350 Years!

Classical 1750-

1820 70 Years

Contemporary 1900-Present

110 Years

Romantic 1820-1900 80 Years

Quiz Time Can you name all the periods? Don’t forget to use

your memory devices.

Antiquity Medieval

Baroque

Renaissance

Classical Romantic Contemporary

Quiz Time

What is the first musical Time Period?

What is the last musical Time Period?

Antiquity

Contemporary

Quiz Time

Can you list the STARTING dates for the time periods? 450

800

1600

1400

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/readingbook_11108.html

Antiquity Picture: http://www.luc.edu/faculty/pgraha1/womeninantiquity/wiasyllabus.htm

Medieval Picture: http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~west~medieval.html

Renaissance Picture: http://karenswhimsy.com/renaissance-clothing.shtm

Baroque Picture: http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Antonio_Vivaldi_baroque-composer-artist.html?q=magnum

Credits

Classical Picture: http://woodside.blogs.com/cosmologycuriosity/2008/01/off-topic-free.html

Contemporary Picture: http://www.gkb.k12.in.us/17062098194154320/cwp/browse.asp?a=3&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=54496&17062098194154320Nav=|&NodeID=69

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

Civil War Picture: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1864/june/civil-war-battle.htm

Credits

All information taken from www.essentialsofmusic.com

Timeline created on www.xtimeline.com