Periods of Musical Movements

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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...