HISTORY OF MUSIC

Primitive music (prehistory)

All music produced in preliterate cultures

All music produced in literate cultures

The oldest known song was written in cuneiform,3400 years ago from Ugarit in Syria.

The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music

Music was now for the first time systematically cultivated.

it was an essential part of training in the schools of the prophets (1Sam,10:5).

500 A.D. to 1400

Performing songs in instrumental pieces and liturgical music(sacred).

It includes solely vocal music

The connection between man and God was established through music.

1400 to 1600

Vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe

1600 to 1750

Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon

The creation of common-practice tonality

Key composer :Johann Sebastian Bach

1730 to 1820

Classical music has a lighter , clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex

style galant

key composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1780 to 1910

It is related to Romanticism.

The music became more explicitly expressive and programmatic.

Famous early Romantic composers include Beethoven , Chopin and others .

Impresionismo

1890 - 1925

Music focuses on suggestion and atmosphere

A key composer was Enrique Granados

Expressionist

1908 - 1950

A key composer was Arnold Schoenberg

Adorno says that "the truthfulness of subjestive feeling without illusions, disguises or euphemisms"

Modern

1890 - 1975

A key composer was Richard Strauss

A period of diverse reactions in challenge and interpreting older categories music

Postmodern

1930 - present

Postmodern music still does not primarily define itself in opposition to modernist.

Contemporary

Since the year 200

Important influences include rock ,pop,jazz

The combination of classical music and multimedia.

The technology and the internet are important resources

Important composers include Nico Muhly, Roxanna Panufnik and others.