History of Classical Music from Gregorian music in 590
Classical music began with Gregorian Notation invention tehun 590 by Pope Gregorythe Great, a block notes with 4 lines,
but there is no count notation. Pope Gregoryduring his lifetime has recorded the songs of the Church with the Gregorian notation.
Before in 590 music experience darkness there is no written heritage that can be read.
Notation Gregorian Year 590
Musical notation was born in 590, called the Gregorian notation, invented by Pope Gregory the Great,
in which previously experienced the darkness of the music there is no written legacy. In his lifetime the Pope Gregori have copied hundreds of songs of the Church in the Gregorian notation. This notation is memekai four beam lines as notes,
but there is no rhythm notation (calculation based on the feelings of the singer. Here, nature is still on track as a single song or Gregorian monofoni.Notasi usually used as a notation to play a church song
Organum Music 1150-1400
At first people to sing with the same tone, or it is called organum, the tone of the sung by women or children,
while the low tones sung by men. Here there is octave arrangement of songs, high voice (women / children) and low voice (male).
Music Diafoni 1400-1600
Apparently not all can follow a high voice or sound rendah.Oleh therefore decided to make a quart a lower voice to follow the melody,
high maunpun quart quart low, and thus the music is called music diafoni (he = two, Foni = sound).
In 1600 Basso Ostinato
The Italians in the years around 1600 to find what is called the Basso Ostinato Bass engaged or stupid or crazy,
a series of tones that move step by step downwards or upwards, and then repeated on a series of other tones.
Polyphony Music Baroque Era 1600-1750
It turns out that follow the same sound with melody becomes boring, then start the voice does not move in parallel,
then start with the opposite direction. Composer Giovanni da Palestrina Perluigi (1515-1594) was a pioneer on this subject,
and compiled a lot of theories about music melody (polyphony), so that each tone or point (punctus = point) move either independently or in opposite (counter), here was born the theory of kontrapun (counterpoint = kontrapunt).
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of the masters of polyphony music with a very high kontrapun technique,
Becouse arranged like mathematics. Almost all composers of Baroque Era (1600-1750) set with kontrapun techniques, such as George Frederic Handle from England, Jean Remeau from Pernacis, Correli from Italy, etc.. Folk song style of polyphony was the Papa of Jacob.
At first people arrange with Kontrapun Bound or Strict Counterpoint, but then menadapat freedom based on the theory Kontrapun Free or Free Counterpoint.
Homofoni Music Classical Era 1750-1825
Later in the Classical Era (1750-1825) found the composition based on the tri-chord sounds (triad), then developed with four votes or more. Such music is called Music Homofoni, so that a variation kontrapun kontrapuntis melody.
Classical Music Romantic Era 1820-1910
Almost no much change in kontrapun and harmony is fundamentally on the Romantic Era (1820-1910), but there is progress in orketrasi complete (with the invention of musical instruments). This era is the last and still be accepted by the public hearing. Especially in the music of opera, ballet music, and walsa Vienna.
Classical Modern Music 1910-present
Modern music with atonal music and Politonal have been away from music fans who enjoyed conventional music, because sound is dissonant and irregular rhythm that requires concentration in the hearing.
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