Evolution Of Music Essay

Citing the History/ Evolution of Music

While researching texts and novels demonstrating the subject of Music, I found a few authors who published books about the “Changes” or “History” of music throughout its time, particularly books, and online research. These online resources websites often placed the subject of “Music” they were studying into historical context discussing the important events and the role of music society has had from “The Middle Ages”, to the “The Twentieth- Century” Music of today. My goal in this paper is to discuss and reveal the Evolution of Music through its time and history, also explaining the impact that music has had on people since the dawn of time.

To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into 7 sections, including some sub-sections, in each section, i explain each Era, Age, and Period of Music History. In the last section, I explain how it has changed over time and how its affected societ today. How the Evolution Of Music came to be. Every detail contains the Work Cited.

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages (Also known as the “Dark Ages”) was a period when invading hordes of Vandals, Huns, and Visigoths overran Europe.Throughout the Middle Ages, there was a ridiculous amount of warfare. Which lead to the disappearance of a modern day lifestyle. Over the next nine centuries, the Christian Church came to dominate Europe, pleading for justice, instigating "Holy" Crusades against the East, creating Universities, and forming a new culture of music, art, and literature. It was during this time that Pope Gregory I is believed to have collected and created the music known as “Gregorian Chant” (church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale, in a style developed fo...

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...nd string quartets by this three composers. Although they are the faces pf classical music, Johann Stamitz contributed greatly to the growth of the orchestra and developed the idea of the orchestral symphony.

The Romantic Era

The Romantic Era (1820 to 1900), was an era where composers of the period broke new musical ground by adding a new emotional depth to the popular classical form. Artists of all kinds became active in expressing their personal emotions through the form of music. "Romanticism" (a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual) included long poems telling stories of heroes and chivalry, of distant lands and far away places, and often of unconditional love. The romantic artists are the first in history to give themselves the name of “Romantics”.