Early music-pre 1400
During that time there weren’t any pieces of music that expressed the feelings of the music that people listened to in the early music. However, most music was sung in church or played for rich people like kings and queens.
Renaissance -1400-1500
At this time there were many composers that started to write their music which was different from the early music. Most of the music in the renaissance period came from France. One of the most favorite composers was Josquin des Prez who was a French composer. He was born in the 1450s and died in the 1520s. He was a very famous European composer that wrote many pieces of music and most of his music was written for churches.
Here are some of his pieces :
Baroque-1600-1750 in this period there were many composers from Germany and many started to focus on the tuning system, however, it was very difficult to tune a piece because if the composer wanted to change his piece up an octave the whole band needed to tune every single instrument so the piece would sound in a right key. One of the most famous composers in the baroque era was Johann Sebastian Bach who came from Germany he died at the age of 65. He created many famous pieces that are still popular up to this day.
Here is one of his famous pieces:
Classical-1750-1830 during this period there were even more composers and the music industry was getting developed more people started to add different kinds of harmonies which created different kinds of feelings. Most of the famous composers are from Europe and one of them is Mozart he was born Salzburg in 1756 and died in 1791 at the age of 35. However, he started to write his own music at a very young age at the age of 17 he got engaged but still carried on being a musician. His pieces are still very popular in the modern days.
Here’s one of his famous pieces:
Romantic-1830-1900 this type of music was played with more emotion and all the pieces were based on love. Nowadays the most popular songs are written about love which all express the emotion the composer has. During this period many composers started to write about love to give their piece more emotion so people could relate to it. One of the most famous composers for this period was Chopin he came from Poland and most of his pieces were based on poems. He was born in 1810 and he died in 1849 at the age of 39.
Here is one of his favorite pieces :
20th century and beyond-1900’s -present this period is more focused on popular music with many different kinds of genres/styles where in some pieces composers mix two different kinds of styles together. however in this period there also women that re composers whereas before this there were only men who composed because women were expected to be at home and take care of their house and children. Popular music is everywhere and most people only listen to popular music. There are still many composers and one of them is Debussy he was a French composer who started to create music at a very young age. He was born in 1862 and died in 1918 at the age of 55.
Here is one of his pieces:
Here are many other composers :
- Beethoven
- John Williams
- Hans Ziner
- Tchaikovsky
- Haydn
- Vivaldi
- Mahler
- Pelius
Composer= a person who writes music often professionally.
Composition=a piece of written music
Songwritter= a person who writes lyrics/music for popular songs
Song= a piece of music that is sung.