Music
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21 November, 2013
MUS31-04
Middle Ages and the Baroque Period Music What is music? According to the definition, music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. As we know, music had become a controversial topic throughout the world. Everyone knows music, everyone heard of music. Music represents our feeling, and used throughout the world. Music has been divided into many periods. Such as Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Twentieth Century. Middle ages and the Baroque period music will be the most intereseting topic throughout the world. The Middle Ages music was the longest and most distant period of musical history and it forms almost a thousand years. The Style of Middle Ages Music was “First performed in unison. The notes were usually the same length and song, or played, in the Key of C. Harmony was gradually introduced and by the 12th century a method of music notation developed which indicated the length of each note and the pitch” (“Middle Ages Music”). There are many outstanding composers comes out during this period. Such as Hilegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. And Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the most
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important composer during this period. He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina ranks with Lassus and Byrd as one of the greatest Renaissance masters. As a prolific composer of masses, motets and other sacred works, as well as madrigals, he was (unlike Lassus) basically conservative. He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina's masses contain some of his finest music (“Palestrina”). Palestrina have written many outstanding
21 November, 2013
MUS31-04
Middle Ages and the Baroque Period Music What is music? According to the definition, music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. As we know, music had become a controversial topic throughout the world. Everyone knows music, everyone heard of music. Music represents our feeling, and used throughout the world. Music has been divided into many periods. Such as Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Twentieth Century. Middle ages and the Baroque period music will be the most intereseting topic throughout the world. The Middle Ages music was the longest and most distant period of musical history and it forms almost a thousand years. The Style of Middle Ages Music was “First performed in unison. The notes were usually the same length and song, or played, in the Key of C. Harmony was gradually introduced and by the 12th century a method of music notation developed which indicated the length of each note and the pitch” (“Middle Ages Music”). There are many outstanding composers comes out during this period. Such as Hilegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. And Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was the most
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important composer during this period. He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina ranks with Lassus and Byrd as one of the greatest Renaissance masters. As a prolific composer of masses, motets and other sacred works, as well as madrigals, he was (unlike Lassus) basically conservative. He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina's masses contain some of his finest music (“Palestrina”). Palestrina have written many outstanding