Name of the periods of musical movements | Time periods of musical movements | How are these periods part of social changes? | Major streams | Sub streams | Origin and end of various sub streams |
Baroque | 1600-1750 | The Baroque period showed the change in the characterisation of architecture and design. The profound political and social changes that succeeded the Renaissance Era led to the creation of quite different styles in the arts, particularly in Baroque music. | Baroque versus Renaissance style Baroque versus classical style | Early Baroque Middle Baroque Late Baroque | Early Baroque (1600-1654)1 (refer to appendix) Middle Baroque (1654-1707)2 Late Baroque (1680-1750)3 |
Classical | About 1770-1830 | Classical music was strongly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy. The social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified. | Renaissance Classicism Age of Classicism - visual arts, architecture and literature | Beginnings of the Classical Style Early Classical Style Middle Classical Style Late Classical Style | Beginnings of the Classical Style (1730-1760)4 Early Classical Style (1760-1775)5 Middle Classical Style (1775-1790)6 Late Classical Style (1790-1825)7 |
Major composers | Composers' sources of influence | Composers' musical impact | Composers' styles and characteristics | Composers' cultural and social impacts | |
Baroque period | Henry Purcell | Purcell's sources of influence were the style of palace, and the court systems of manners and arts, which Louis XIV of France fostered. This became the model for the rest of Europe. | Purcell was a fluid composer who was able to shift from simple anthems and useful music such as marches, to grandly scored vocal music for the stage. His great keyboard pieces influenced later composers. | Purcell had a... | |
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