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
