• Musical forms began to break from the Classical era forms, with free-form pieces like nocturnes（夜曲）, fantasias（幻想 曲）
• Musical institutions emerged from the control of wealthy patrons, as composers and musicians could construct lives independent of the nobility.
early music period
Baroque period
Medieval (500–1400)
&
(1600–1750)
Renaissance (1400–1600)
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Classical period (1750–1830)
Romantic period (1815–1910)
Early music period
Common practice period
Baroque era 1600–1750
Classical era 1750–1830
Romantic era 1815–1910
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Baroque music
•Keyboard music played on the harpsichord and pipe organ became increasingly popular •Violin family of stringed instruments took the form generally seen today •Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms •Vocal forms like the cantata and oratorio became more common
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Well Tempered Clavier
Bach
Musician or mathematician?
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Classical period music
• Piano became the predominant keyboard instrument
• Opera continued to develop, with regional styles in Italy, France, and German-speaking lands
(Gagaku) • Korean court music • Scottish Pibroch • Thai classical music
• Renaissance to Early modern Europe
• Tang Dynasty
• Vedic（梵语） period to present
• Increasing interest in music by the growing middle classes throughout western Europe spurred the creation of organizations for the teaching, performance, and preservation of music.
• Characterized by increased attention to an extended melodic line, as well as expressive and emotional elements, paralleling romanticism in other art forms
The Medieval period includes music from after the fall of Rome to about 1400.
The Renaissance period was from 1400 to 1600
Social dancing became more widespread, so musical forms appropriate to accompanying dance began to standardize. It is in this time that the notation of music on a staff and other elements of musical notation began to take shape. With a musical score, a work of music could be performed without the composer's presence.
Arkey Works
Common Practice Period
The Common Practice Period is when many of the ideas that
make up western classical
music took shape,
standardized, or were codified.
Classical music
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Styles from the whole world and the period in history
• European classical music • Chinese traditional music • Indian classical music • Persian classical music • Japanese court music
• Elamnite dynasties
• Heian period（平安时代）
• Joseon（朝鲜） Dynasty
• Renaissance to Early modern Europe
• Khmer(高棉) Empire
-HΒιβλιοθήκη story of European classical music
• The symphony came into its own as a musical form
• The concerto was developed as a vehicle for displays of virtuoso playing skill.
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Mozart Requiem
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Romantic era music