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Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.
Early music – generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.
This is a list of classical music composers by era. With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern. Composers with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras.
In the years centering on 1600 in Europe [broken anchor], several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found ...
Renaissance Music. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-97169-4. Crocker, Richard L (1966). A History of Musical Style. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-486-25029-6. Gallo, Alberto (1995). Music in the Castle: Troubadours, Books and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Chicago: University of ...
Ancient music – Early history – 1500s – 1510s – 1520s ... Popular music; Timeline of musical events ... Bobby Darin, Billboard publishes first U.S. music ...
Aubade – Song or instrumental composition concerning morning love or lovers separating at dawn. Bacchanale – Composition with a wild, spirited character, often evoking a bacchanal. Bagatelle – Short, light instrumental composition. Ballade – Instrumental composition that follows a narrative style, often lyrical and expressive.
A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist or instrumental musician. [ 141 ] [ 142 ] Many instrumentalists are known for playing specific musical instruments such as guitarist ( guitar ), pianist ( piano ), bassist ( bass ), and drummer ( drum ).