western music originated as folk music traditions of england

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Western music originated as folk music traditions of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, composed bypeople who settled and worked in both the western part of Canada and the United States. Western musiccelebrates the life of the cowboy on the open ranges and prairies of the United States. Mexican music also hadan impact of the beginnings of this genre. The composers listed below will give you a better resource on howthe development of western music took place. Some of these composers' careers extended beyond thegeneral historical periods they're listed under.

Medieval/ Renaissance Period

The musical era for the renaissance period extended from 1400 to the beginnings of the 1600's. This periodfeatured the rebirth of humanism and the revival of cultural achievements. The Renaissance labeled a time forrebuilding and reconstructing. The musicians and artists of this time produced work based on individualism andfreedom. This era took place after the medieval period, a period known to be the longest and most remoteperiod of music history from 800 to 1400. Early music in this time was different than present music, whereduring this time a musical notation consisted of one note to be sung. This didn't change until later in the middleages when two or more melodic lines were sung called polyphony.

Adam de la Halle - also known as Adam the Hunchback, a French poet and musician whose works

include chansons and poetic debates. William Byrd - English composer of the Shakespearean age who is best know for his development of

the English madrigal. Jean de Castro - artist who wrote polyphony in a European prospective. John Dowland - English composer best known for his melancholy songs. Guillaume Dufay - Franco-Flemish composer, who became famous for his knowledge of all the

elements of composition. Giovanni Gabrieli - Italian composer best known for the culmination of the style of the Venetian School. Vicenzo Galilei - Italian composer who became an influential member of the Florentine Camerata, an

informal meeting where literature, science and arts were discussed. Hans Leo Hassler- German composer and one of the first to bring the innovations of the Venetian style

across the Alps.

Guillaume de Machaut - French composer who helped develop the motet and secular song forms. Hildegard von Bingen - Christian mystic female composer, who wrote theological, botanical and

medicinal texts. Tobias Hume - English composer and viol player who published music based on the viol instrument. Johannes Ockeghem - famous composer of the Flanco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th

century. G.P. da Palestrina - Italian composer that became famous through his output of sacred music. He had

a major impact on the development of Roman Catholic church music. Josquin des Prez - Franco-Flemish composer, known to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish

School and known by music scholars to be the first master of polyphonic vocal music. Salamone Rossi - Italian Jewish violinist and one of the first composers to apply to instrumental music

the principles of monodic song. John Taverner- English composer and first organist and master of the choristers at Christ Church and

his best known mass is based on a song called, "The Western Wynde."

Baroque Period

The Baroque Era was a type of music genre from 1600 to 1750 based on European classical music. Duringthis period, musicians and artists used more musical ornamentation, developed new instrumental playingtechniques and made changes to musical notation. This is the period when the opera genre made its debut.The first operas were private affairs for Italian courts. In 1637, the first public opera house opened in Venice,Italy and became a commercial industry, allowing composers to try new techniques of composition and new

ideas.

J.S. Bach - German composer who drew attention because of his secular works for choir, orchestra andsolo instruments.

Dietrich Buxtehude - German-Danish organist whose works comprise a major part of the standardorgan repertoire.

Francesca Caccini - female Italian composer and singer, which her stage work "La Liberazione diRuggiero," was best known as the first opera by a woman composer.

Francesco Durante - one of the best church Italian composers of his time with his style and technique. George Frideric Handel - German-English composer who was famous for his operas, oratorios, and

concertos.
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Johann Adolf Hasse - German composer best know for his prolific operatic output and developer ofopera seria and 18th-century music.

Johann David Heinichen - German composer who brought the musical concept of Venice to the court ofAugustus the Strong in Dresden.

Jacques Martin Hotteterre - French composer who was most celebrated of a family of wind performersand wind instrument makers.

Jean-Baptiste Lully - French composer whose music playing the guitar and violin is known for its powerand its deep emotional character in its sad moments.

Marin Marais - French composer who was the master of the basse de viol and leading French

composer for the instrument. Claudio Monteverdi - Italian composer who developed two styles of composition: the new bass continuo

of the baroque period and the heritage of Renaissance polyphony. Johann Pachelbel - German composer whose contributions to the development of the chorale prelude

and fugue techniques allowed him to be one of the greatest composer's during the middle of the era. Henry Purcell - English composer and organist of sacred and secular music. Johann Joaquim Quantz - German flautist, flute maker and composer who is best known for his piece

called, "Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere zu spielen," which expresses the techniques forflute playing.

Thomas Ravenscroft - English composer of rounds and catches and known for a series of collections ofBritish folk music.

Johann Theodor Romhild - German musician composer of the baroque era. Johan Helmich Roman - Swedish composer who is known as, "the father of Swedish music," who best

known compositions is the, "Music for a Royal Wedding," which consists of 24 short pieces. Domenico Scarlatti - Italian composer whose music influenced the development of the classical style.

His 555 sonatas were almost all written for the harpsichord. Heinrich Schutz - German composer and organist and he is thought to be the one who wrote the first

German opera. Antonio Soler- Spanish composer who is best known for his keyboard sonatas. Barbara Strozzi - female Italian composer and singer who is said to be the most prolific composer of

printed secular vocal music in Venice. Giuseppe Tartini - half Italian and half Venetian composer and violinist who's most famous work is the

"Devil's Trill Sonata." Georg Philipp Telemann - German composer and multi-instrumentalist who has more than 800 credited

works according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Antonio Vivaldi - Venetian composer and famous virtuoso violinist whose best known work is, "The

Four Seasons," a popular series of four violin concerti. Sylvius Leopold Weiss - German composer and lutenist who is considered to be one of the most prolific

composers of lute music in history who wrote around 600 pieces for lute.

Classic Period

The Classical Era took place between 1750 and 1820 and artists and musicians in this period moved awayfrom the ornamented styles of the baroque period and moved towards more of a clean, uncluttered style theythought would be reminiscent to Classical Greece such as architecture, literature, and arts. This was a periodwhere artists geared more towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony, a combination calledhomophony was preferred instead of the styles of the baroque period. The musicians who played chords, evenif they interrupted the melodic tone of the song, became a new style feature for music. The sonata form ofmusic began in this period and became the most important form which was used to build up the first movementof large-scale works.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - German musician and composer who was one of the founders of theclassical style who composed the rococo style.

P.D.Q. Bach - fictional composer invented by musical satirist Professor Peter Schickele, an Americancomposer.

Ludwig van Beethoven - German composer and pianist who was a crucial figure between the classicaland romantic eras.

Luigi Boccherini - Spanish composer who is known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in Eand the Cello Concerto in B flat major.

Domenico Cimarosa - Italian composer who wrote more than 80 operas during his lifetime. Muzio Clementi - Italian composer who is credited to be the first to write specifically for the piano. Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia - Brazilian composer who wrote sacred and secular pieces. Franz Joseph Haydn - Austrian composer also known as the "Father of Symphony," and "Father of the

String Quartet," for the works during the classical period. He also helped developed the piano trio. James Hook - English organist and composer.
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Joseph Martin Kraus - German composer also known as, "the Swedish Mozart," whose music pieces isclassified as dramatic contrasts in in register, character, and harmony.

Friedrich Kuhlau - German-Danish composer who wrote a piano concerto, a string quartet, and severalworks for the piano.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - prolific and influential composer of the classical era who composed over600 works dealing with pinnacles of symphonic, piano, chamber, concertante, operatic and choralmusic.

Sigismund Neukomm - Portuguese composer who wrote a clarinet quintet, several organ voluntaries,10 operas, 48 masses, 8 oratorios and plenty of other small works.

Anton Reicha - French composer who is best remembered for his contribution to the wind quintetliterature and his role as a teacher.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Genevois philosopher writer and composer whose political philosophyinfluenced the French Revolution.

Antonio Salieri - Italian composer who developed the late 18th century opera. Fernando Sor- Spanish guitarist and composer who is best known for his guitar compositions. Johann Wanhal - prolific writer and composer who works includes 100 quartets, approximately 73

symphonies, 95 sacred works and a numerous of other small works. Carl Maria von Weber- German composer and one of the first composers of the Romantic school.

Romantic Period

As time went by and life began to convey, composers in this time period from 1820 to the 1900 began usingintense feelings in their music since in the classical era, artists and composers had strict laws of balance andrestraint to consider. This was the period where melody became the dominant feature and artists andmusicians used their artistic developments to portray nationalism. The length of compositions, tonalrelationships, and new harmonies began to be experimented by composers. There was an increased use ofdissonance, chromaticism, and color in artists' pieces. One of the new forms was the symphonic poem, anorchestral work that told a story. Another new form was the art song, a vocal musical work with tremendousmeaning on the text. These two forms allowed opera to become even more popular.

Isaac Alb - Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.
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