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Songs in Antiquity (Actually at 800BC)
The Ancient Greek God of Music was Apollo. Five ancient Greek instruments are Pipes,Lyres, Kitharas, Lutes and Drums. This music was used for religious festivals, weddings/marriages, funerals and banquets. Rowers used this music to keep in time, shepherds piped to their sheep and women created this music at home. -
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Songs of Wandering Minstrels
Minstrels were replaces in courts by troubadours and jokers. They were different from troubadours as troubadours mostly write songs with the theme of love, while minstrels wrote short, humorous songs, sometimes including rude jokes. The wandering minstrels were generally a very low class. -
Jan 1, 1500
Madrigal
Madrigal is a non-religious style of vocal music, usually a part song. The earliest known Madrigal composer known of is Bernardo Pisado. Madrigal was usually on a serious or tragic topic and consisted of an irregular number of lines, usually with 7 or 11 syllables. -
Opera
The first Opera was in 1598. Opera is a style of music that is full of emotion and combines most aspects of performance which makes it easy for actors to get emotional messages across to the audience. One important opera composer is Rossini. -
Aria
Two famous concert Aria composers are Beethoven and Mozart. The most popular time for Aria music was in the Baroque period, Aria itself starting in 1602. In most cases Aria's would not contain a third part and the composer would instead use the term "da capo" to tell the performer to return to part A and repeat it. -
Lieder
Lieder is a type of music from the Romantic Era, which you can tell as Lieder is often associated with themes of love and romance. Lieder associates from Germany and is in Germany. The most ideal style for Lieder is to show romantic, expressive ideas through the music. -
Parlour Songs
Parlour Songs were an appeal in most middle-class families and it was widely spread through sheet music. Parlour Songs come from the 19th Century. -
Operetta
Operetta is also called Light Opera. Offenbach first opened his theatre in 1855. -
Popera
Popera is a mix of pop music and opera and is sung in an operatic style. It's tempo is not too fast or slow and at a medium pace. The music is known to gradually get louder and more dramatic, ending extremely loudly and dramatically. -
Pop
A standard pop song is generally short to medium length and written in a verse-chorus structed with repeated choruses, melodic tunes and hooks. Five people who have been influential in Pop Music are Elvis Presley, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Elton John and Michael Jackson. Pop Music is significant through history because many people in different age groups and cultures can realte to the simple messages of the songs. -
Rock 'n' Roll
Rock 'n' Roll gained it's name around the 1950s. Elvis Presley is known as the king of Rock 'n' Roll. One of the first known songs from Rock 'n' Roll is "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley.
