Download Intro to Music History

• MUSICAL STYLE
• the way in which a composer or performer treats the
following elements
• Melody
• Harmony
• Rhythm
• Tone Color
• Dynamics
• Texture
• Form
• MUSICAL STYLE
• often times outside factors play into the style of a piece or
artist
• TIME PERIOD / LOCATION / WHAT IT WAS MEANT FOR
• king, under class, ect..
• concert hall or dinning room,
• dance, religious rite, drama, ect…
• MUSICAL STYLE
• Music is not created in vacuum
• much borrowing and contrast occurs.
• to better understand music & style we turn to
• Music History
• Overview of Time periods
• Time periods are tied to World History events
• Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Israel had
music but nothing survives,
• JAZZ HISTORY is mostly 20th /21st Century
• ....a very small part of world music history
MUSIC HISTORY TIME PERIODS
• MIDDLE AGES (450 fall of Rome – 1450
printing press invented)
• RENAISSANCE (1450 – 1600 Birth of Opera)
• BAROQUE (1600 – 1750 death of BACH)
• CLASSICAL ( 1750 – 1820 death of Beethoven)
• ROMANTIC (1820 – 1900 start of 20th cen.
Industrial rev)
• 20th CENTURY to 1945 (end of WWII)
• 1945 to PRESENT
JAZZ HISTORY TIMELINE
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The Blues & Ragtime (early 1900’s)
New Orleans Jazz / Chicago Jazz (1910’s-1920’s)
Swing / Big Band (1930’s-1940’s)
Be-Bop (1940’s-1950’s)
Cool Jazz (1940’s-1950’s)
Hard Bop (1950’s-1960’s)
Funky Gospel (1950’s-1970’s)
Avant Garde (1950’s-1970’s)
Fusion (1970’s)
---Latin Jazz (can be traced as almost a separate
timeline)
• HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
• Tracing your favorite bands “Musical History”
by tracing their influences
• Trace backwards from present day to as far as
you can go most likely into Jazz or Blues
influence
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