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15,000 BCE
Harp
This instrument was created in 15,000 BC in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its strings. Many facts about this instrument can be found at Fun Harp Facts - Kaufman Music Center Kaufman MusicCenterhttps://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org › article › fun-har... -
3100 BCE
lute
This instrument was created in 3,100 BC in Asia, There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its strings. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute. -
1900 BCE
Conga drums
This instrument was created in the 19th century in Cuba. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by percussion. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conga -
1900 BCE
Bongo
This instrument was created in 1900 in Afro-Cuban. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by percussion. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongo_drum -
1879 BCE
Ukulele
This instrument was invented in Hawaii/ Portugal in 1879. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its strings. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://stagemusiccenter.com/music-school-blog-winchester-acton-ma/2019/9/20/ukulele-history-fun-facts-and-benefits-of-learning. -
1800 BCE
Clarinet
This instrument was created in the 18th century in France There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/clarinet/structure/#:~:text=The%20clarinet%20is%20a%20relative,chalumeau%2Dwas%20already%20in%20existence. -
1700 BCE
French horn
This instrument was created in the 17th century in france. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by brass. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/horn-musical-instrument -
1600 BCE
Violin
This instrument was invented in the 16th century in Italy. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its strings and bridge. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_violin -
1600 BCE
Triangle
This instrument was created in the 16 century in Egypt. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by percussion. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument) -
1500 BCE
Trumpet
This instrument was invented around 1500 BC in Egypt. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its bass. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/trumpet. -
1500 BCE
Crumhorn
This instrument was invented in Germany in the 15 century. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/crumhorn. -
900 BCE
Flute
This instrument was created in 900 BC in China. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at MusicCenterhttps://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org › article › fun-har...britannica.com/art/flute-musical-instrument -
300 BCE
cymbals
This instrument was created in the 3rd-4th century in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by percussion. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbal -
1300
motet -renaissance music style
A motet is an unaccompanied vocal composition that evolved from and used sacred Latin text in some form. The medieval motet borrowed the Latin chants and composed new music above them in the vernacular. The Renaissance motets were sung entirely in Latin. -
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1484
ave Maria by Josquin Desprez- renaissance
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1500
trombone
This instrument was created in the 15 century in France. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by brass. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/trombone -
1500
mass- renaissance
The Renaissance mass is a polyphonic setting of five texts (known collectively as the mass ordinary) that were said or sung at every Catholic mass. 3 The liturgy of the mass evolved throughout the Middle Ages. -
1521
Josquin des Prez-Renaissance
Josquin des Prez was born in 1450 and died Aug 27, 1521. He was one of the greatest composers of Renaissance Europe. Josquin’s early life has been the subject of much scholarly debate, and the first solid evidence of his work comes from a roll of musicians associated with the cathedral in Cambrai in the early 1470s. More information can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Josquin-des-Prez. -
1561
Sonata - music style during the classical era
A sonata is a musical composition for one or more instruments that typically contains three sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. Sonatas originated in the Baroque period and were typically written for keyboard instruments such as the piano or harpsichord. -
Thomas Tallis- Renaissance music
Thomas Tallis was born in 1505 and died November 20 or 23, 1585. He was one of the most important English composers of sacred music before William Byrd. His style encompassed the simple Reformation service music and the great Continental polyphonic schools whose influence he was largely responsible for introducing into English music. some of his notable works are "Miserere nostri” “Spem in alium nunquam habui”. more information can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Tallis. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina- Renaissance music
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born in 1525, in Palestrina, near Rome and he died on February 2, 1594, in Rome. He was an Italian Renaissance composer of more than 105 masses and 250 motets and a master of contrapuntal composition. Some of his notable works are “Accepit Jesus calicem” “Ave Maria” “Cum ortus fuerit”. more information can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Pierluigi-da-Palestrina. -
Transition from Renaissance to baroque
A lot of Renaissance composers wrote music that was smoother and more gentle. The music was still polyphonic with each voice having a share of melody. Music was starting to become less modal and more tonal. By the time the Baroque period started composers were using a system of major and minor keys like we do today. -
Opera- music during the classical music era
An opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet -
ballet de cour music during the baroque music
ballet de cour – an iconic court spectacle in early 17th century France. These elaborate spectacles combined poetry, the visual arts, music, and dance, and mirrored the passions, concerns, and even foibles of aristocratic society from the advent of the genre in 1581, with the Ballet Comique de la Reine. -
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William Byrd- renaissance
William Byrd was born in 1539/40, in London, England, and died July 4, 1623, in Stondon Massey, Essex, England. He was an English organist and composer of the Shakespearean age who is best known for his development of the English madrigal. He also wrote virginal and organ music that elevated the English keyboard style. Some of his notable works are “Cantiones Sacrae” “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book” and “Gradualia”.More facts can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Byrd -
Claudio Monteverdi- baroque music
Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer and musician who died in 1643. He was know for his notabal songs : “L’Arianna” “La favola d’Orfeo” “Licoris Who Feigned Madness” “Madrigals of War and Love” “Movete al mio bel suon” “The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda” “The Coronation of Poppea” “The Return of Ulysses to His Country” “Tirsi e Clori” “Vespro della Beata Vergine”. He played baroque music and Renaissance music. More information can be found at britannica.com/biography/Claudio-Monteverdi -
piano
This instrument was created in 1700 in Italy. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by keyboard. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/piano -
chamber music- music style during the classical era
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. -
cantata music during the baroque era
A cantata is a musical composition for vocalists that includes instrumental accompaniment. This vocal composition is usually structured as a recitative (or sung speech) with an aria, a solo voice part, repeated in between -
Antonio Vivaldi-baroque music
Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian composer who was born in 1678 and died in 1741. His time performing in public was playing alongside his father in the basilica as a “supernumerary” violinist in 1696. His most known music is Concerto for Four Violins and Cello in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10. He is known for playing barque music.more facts can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Vivaldi -
Johann Sebastian bach- baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach was a renowned German composer who was born in 1685 and passed away in 1750. He was mainly known as one of the greatest composers of the Baroque time. 2 of his most popular compositions are "The Well-tempered Clavier" and the Brandenburg concertos". More information can be found at https://www.biography.com/musicians/johann-sebastian-bach -
Baroque to classical
The Baroque-Classical Transition c. 1730–1760. At first the new style took over baroque forms—the ternary da capo aria and the sinfonia and concerto—but composed with simpler parts, more notated ornamentation and more emphatic division into sections. -
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George Frideric Handel -baroque music
George Frideric Handel was an English composer who is most known for Water Music in 1717 and Music for the Royal Fireworks in 1749. He was born in 1685, and died in 1759, at the age of 74. more information can be found at britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel. -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Classical
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714 and died in 1788, he composed a well-known song named Sonata No. 55. He had 2 sons and the second son talks about how much his father's music impacted his music. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- classical music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 and died in 1791 at the age of 35. some of his Notable Works are “A Musical Joke” “Adagio für Harmonika K. 356” “Adagio und Rondo K. 617” “Bastien and Bastienne” “Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581” “Concerto in A Major”. At three he was picking out chords on the harpsichord, at four playing short pieces, at five composing. more facts can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart. -
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Sleigh bells
This instrument was created in 1800 in Europe. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by percussion. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_bell. -
rhapsody during the romantic music era
A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, color, and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations. -
Harmonica
This instrument was created in 1821 in China. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/harmonica. -
accordion
This instrument was created in 1822 in Germany. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by keyboard. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/accordion -
Ludwig van Beethoven- Classical music
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 and died in 1827. He was born into a family of musicians and by 11 he left school to take care of the family and by 18 he was the breadwinner. He composed many of his most famous pieces—including the Eroica Symphony (1805), Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1808), Symphony No. 6 in F Major (1808), and Symphony No. 7 in A Major (1813). More facts can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-van-Beethoven -
symphonic poem during the romantic era
While many symphonic poems may compare in size and scale to symphonic movements (or even reach the length of an entire symphony), they are unlike traditional classical symphonic movements, in that their music is intended to inspire listeners to imagine or consider scenes, images, specific ideas or moods, and not to -
Classical to Romantic
As the classical era started to end the romantic era had begun. Classical music was organized and tidy, while romantic music was filled with many emotions and drama. During this time the piano gained more significance and new instruments were introduced like the saxophone joining the orchestra. -
Saxophone
This instrument was made in Belgium in 1846. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https:www.yamaha.com/en/musical_intrument_instrument_guide/saxophone/struckture/. -
Frédéric Chopin- romantic music
Frédéric Chopin was born March 1, 1810, and died October 17, 1849. He was a Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period, best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano concerti. some of his notable works are “Berceuse” “Chopin Preludes, Op. 28” “Heroic Polonaise” and “Polonaise in G Minor”. More facts can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin -
Clara Schumann-romantic music
Clara Schumann (born Sept. 13, 1819, Leipzig, Saxony [Germany]—died May 20, 1896, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.) was a German pianist, composer, and wife of composer Robert Schumann. She studied piano from the age of five and by 1835 had established a reputation throughout Europe as a child prodigy. one of her notable works is the Four Fugitive Pieces”. More information can be found at britannica.com/biography/Clara-Schumann. -
celesta
This instrument was created in 1886 in paris. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by woodwind. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/clesesta -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky- classical music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born April 25 [ 1840, Votkinsk, Russia—died October 25 [November 6], 1893, St. Petersburg) was the most popular Russian composer of all time. some of his Notable Works are, “Cherevichki” “Eugene Onegin” “Marche Slave, Op. 31” “Pathétique Symphony” “Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor” “And Romeo and Juliet”. More information can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky -
Johannes brahms -romantic
Johannes Brahm a German composer was born in 1833 and died in 1897. He is known for his compositions Wiegenlied,danzas Hungary, and more. by the age of 6, he had created his method of writing musical notes on paper. More information can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/johannes-brahms. -
Johann Strauss II - romantic music
Johann Strauss II was born on October 25, 1825, and died on June 3, 1899. He was known as “the Waltz King,” a composer famous for his Viennese waltzes and operettas. Some of his notable works are “Die Fledermaus” and “The Blue Danube”. More facts can be found at britannica.com/biography/Johann-Strauss-II. -
Program music during the romantic era.
Richard Strauss was one of the Romantic period's most adept practitioners of program music. Program music is music that is based on a specific narrative and, as such, is intended to evoke extra-musical ideas or images in the mind of the listener, by musically depicting a scene, theme, event, or literary text. -
Electric Guitar
This electric guitar was invented in 1930 in the United States of America. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its strings. There are many facts about this instrument that can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/electric-guitar. -
tuba
This instrument was created in 1935 in Germany. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by brass. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/tuba -
melodica
This instrument was created in the 1950s in Germany. There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by its keyboard. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.hohner.de/en/instruments/melodica -
mellophone
This instrument was created in the 1950s in France There are many different playing styles for instruments but this particular instrument is played by brass. Many facts about this instrument can be found at https://www.britannica.com/art/mellophone -
chansons- music style during the renaissance
A chanson is generally any lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s