Im taking over for Miss.Lizzie untill she comes back to the board.Heres the musical periods and dates.
Medieval (before 1450)

Renaissance (1450-1600)

Baroque (1600-1750)

Classicism (1750-1820)

Romanticism (1810-1910)

20th century (1900-present)

Im gonna start with medieval and work my way down.


Music developed during the Gothic or Medieval period, including Gregorian Chant, was developed and refined over several centuries. This era covers the period 1000-1450. Music of the Medieval period is, for the most part, sacred, and characterized by the slow development of more rhythmic independence between voices in polyphonic textures. This arose from the monophonic style of Gregorian Chant and the more straight-forward multiple voice textures of organum.

Because ancient composers often did not affix their names to their compositions, many of the composers of this era are unknown to us, and, even if a name can be associate with a particular work, very little may be known about the specifics of that composer's life. However, a few major composers from this era are known to us, including Abbess Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin Magnus, and Guillaume de Machaut, among others.


~*~Perotin Magnus~*~

Perotinus Magister, known simply as Perotin, was a French composer of the late 12th and early 13th centuries. As a composer of sacred music in Paris during the High Gothic Period, he quickly became most prestigious of that period through his famous discant and organum quadruplum. Most likely born circa 1160, Perotin probably studied with his older contemporary, Leonin. His association with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, allowed his compositions to belong to the collection of the Notre Dame (or Parisian) School, of which he and Leonin are the only members known by name. Perotin also helped enlarge and edit a collection of organa written by Leonin, which is known as the Magnus Liber Organi. It is believed by a majority of music theorists of the 13th century, that during his revising of the Magnus Liber Organi, his concern of the development of the genre of music which is now called "motetus," was what inspired him to write four-part works.


~*~Guillaume de Machaut~*~
Guillaume de Machaut (d.1377) is one of the undisputed pinnacle geniuses of Western music, and the most famous composer of the Middle Ages. Today his four-voice Mass of Notre Dame is a textbook example for medieval counterpoint, and has served sufficiently to maintain his reputation across shifts in fashion. However Machaut's work is extensive, with his French songs & poetry dominating the fourteenth century by both their quality and volume. A series of carefully prepared illuminated manuscripts, undertaken for members of the French royalty, preserve his complete artistic output. Along with these major sources, various pieces are duplicated in scattered sources throughout Europe. His life and work are thus extremely well-preserved for the period, and his position as the most distinguished composer of the century has never wavered.

Machaut was apparently born in the vicinity of Rheims in Champagne, around the year 1300. He is first known as the secretary of John of Luxembourg in 1323, and used the position to travel extensively for various battles and political events. In approximately 1340, Machaut returned to Rheims to take up the position of canon (he had previously been an absentee office-holder) together with his brother Jean. However, he continued to serve John of Luxembourg until the latter's death at Crécy in 1346, and then served his daughter Bonne, who appears in the Remède de Fortune. The remainder of the fourteenth century was an epic of wars and plagues, and one of the few periods in which the population of Europe declined, but Machaut's reputation continued to rise. He went on to serve two kings of France, and was charged with a task as important as accompanying hostages during the English war. In 1361 the Dauphine was received in Machaut's quarters, an exceptional event. By the 1370s Machaut's name was associated with Pierre de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, thus establishing his fame nearly as far as Asia.

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