History

The Middle Age Music

The middle age music flourished around the 15th century from the 5th century. It was equivalent to the Kamakura from the Heian in Japan. The end of 8th century, Pope Gregory created Gregorian chant which he collected some of church music. Gregorian chant was created for the ceremony of Roma and sung succeed. It was based on development music. So, this was the beginning of classical music. In this period, people created a lot of sacred song because the center of music was churches. Music form was one melody from the beginning. Afterward, it changed many melodies gradually.

Renaissance Music

Renaissance music flourished around the 17th century from the 15th century. It spread from Flanders. In this period, composers expressed sounds in free form. The music which composed different part of the voice called polyphony. Composers created vocal music and religious music. The typical composers were Dufay and Despres.

Baroque Music

Baroque music flourished around the 18th century from the 17th century. In this period, composers created not vocal music but a lot of instrument pieces. New instruments were invented, but old instruments were developed expression of sound which was suited for atmosphere. In this period, orchestra began to activity. Modern orchestra’s way of thinking was born together opera (including the chorus Overture, Prelude, Aria and Recitative), concerto and sonata. Previously, composers were taking out the originality through the use of a certain chord progression and melody line. However, when it comes to this period, harmonic system has been used effectively on the basis of a major and a minor scale. The typical composers were Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann.

Classical Music

Classical music flourished around the 19th century from the 18th century. At that time, composers were active in Vienna of the Roman Empire because there was a rich and elegant city. They created the genre of music and introduced a form that follows the present day. This is called sonata form. It has been refined structure and presentation. In this period, composers made many Symphonies and concertos. Before the baroque, polyphony was the main music. However, this period gradually changed to homophony. Then, the foundation was created Symphonies and orchestral music. In addition, to play a fine expression rich volume became possible because piano appeared to replace the harpsichord. Also, receptor music was shifting from aristocracy to bourgeois. The typical composers were Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Peter Schubert.

Roman Music

Romantic music flourished around the 20th century from the 19th century. It has spread from Europe. In this period, music began to develop the classical music by the spirit of Romanticism. Homophony style of that was developed in the classical music was mature in this period. Then, chromatic tonal were added to the composer's technique and they were used in a lot of the songs dissonance and modulation. Structure of music was associated with poetries and stories. Then, Composers were express to freely their feelings. The typical composers were Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin and Richard Strauss.

Modern Music

Modern music flourished after the 20th century. It was belief music. It was moving to the transitional music to sensory representation. Composers had been placed in a sensory impression of the outside and subtle atmosphere. They used six whole-tone scale and Innovative techniques run counter to traditional tonal. Twelve-tone technique was created in this period and the ways of expression by music spread throughout the infinite. The typical composers were Rebecca Helferich Clarke, Claude Achille Debussy, Modest Mussorgsky and Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky.