Download most of the music is cast in sonata form or closely related forms

MEDIEVAL MUSIC:
Medieval music means music from the Middle Ages. The time we call the Middle
Ages is a long period from about 400 AD to 1400 AD. In the middle ages, the
Church dominated music. But around the 13th century, the earliest major
repertory of Western secular (non-religious) music, which has come down to us,
is that of the troubadors and trouveres. French poet-musicians of the Middle
Ages who set their own poems to music. Most of the music was about love.
+Composer: One such composer was Guillaume de Machaut (c. 13001377), who was not only a musician of great renown but also a poet
whose stature approached that of Chaucer.
+Sources: http://www.classicfm.com/discover/periods/renaissance/
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/ito/history/
RENAISSANCE MUSIC:
During the Renaissance, the relaxation of the Church’s political control over
society meant that composers were allowed greater freedom to be influenced by
art, classical mythology and even astronomy and mathematics. Music could be
published and distributed for the first time. Most music written during this period
is intended to be sung, either as large choral pieces in church or as songs or
madrigals. But non-vocal music flourished too, as technology enabled musical
instruments to be more expressive and agile. Pieces could now be written
specifically for instruments such as the sackbut and lute.
+Composer: Giovanni Gabrielli
He was an Italian organist and composer. He is one of the most influential
composers during the renaissance time. He composed a lot of instrumental
music as well as vocal music.
+Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music
BAROQUE MUSIC: 1600–1760
The word "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco,
meaning misshapen pearl,[2] a negative description of the ornate and heavily
ornamented music of this period
During the period, composers and performers used more elaborate musical
ornamentation, made changes in musical notation, and developed new
instrumental playing techniques. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and
complexity of instrumental performance, and also
established opera, cantata, oratorio, concerto, and sonata as musical genres.
+Composer: The composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), whose
style of playing became the basis for the violin technique of the 18th and 19th
centuries
+Sources: www.baroquemusic.org/barcomp.html
CLASSICAL MUSIC:
1730–1820
Compose of energetic and orchestral color in a thematic way, the use of
rhythm, including periodic structure and harmonic rhythm, to give definition
to large-scale forms, along with the use of modulation to build longer spans
of tension and release (most of the music is cast in sonata form or closely
related forms), and the witty, typically Austrian mixture of comic and
serious strains.
+Composer: Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
(1756–1791)
Mozart's music embraces opera, symphony, concerto, chamber, choral,
instrumental and vocal music, revealing an astonishing number of
imperishable masterpieces which contributes to the period a lot.
Read more at
+Sources:http://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/#XF0ddwIdAuRuQ
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https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120309102229AADqRk
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ROMANTIC MUSIC: 1780–1910
During the Romantic period, composers used music to express themselves; it
became more emotional and subjective. Composers were inspired by romantic
love, the supernatural and even dark themes such as death. Tone color became
richer; harmony became more intricate. Dynamics, pitch and tempo had wider
ranges and the use of rubato became popular. The orchestra was also
expanded. However, the piano underwent many changes and composers
brought the piano to new heights of creative expression.
+Composer: Richard Wagner
22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883
Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works such as The
Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser which were in the romantic traditions of
Weber and Meyerbeer.
+Source: http://www.talkclassical.com/blogs/peeyaj/146-greatestcomposers-romantic-era.html
Modern Music (1890-1975)
In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying
the period of change and development in musical language that occurred
around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in
challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that
lead to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic,
and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in
close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of
the time.
+Source: http://www.slideshare.net/jpholly/the-modern-period-ofwestern-musical-history
20th Century:
Twentieth-century music has seen a great coming and going of
various movements, among them post-romanticism, serialism and
neo-classicism in the earlier years of the century.
Composer: Claude Debussy because he was so famous for his work
that was related to impressionist music which was in the 20th century.
+Sources: http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/twen/
Contemporary Classic Music (1975-Present):
Contemporary Classic Music is made out of
modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.
+Composer: Pierre Boulez because of his piece “Notations”.
+Sources: http://one-europe.info/contemporary-music-and-some-famouseuropean-composers
21st Century Music:
21st Century Music is a diverse art form. It is a combination of previous
century elements. There are various music genres such as pop, jazz, rock
and others.
+Composer: Taylor Swift
Because her songs contributed a lot to the 21st century music style such as
Blank Space. It contains a lot of music elements.
+Source: http://www.last.fm/tag/21st%20century%20classical/wiki