We can divide the history of music in different periods

We can divide the history of music into distinct periods, each identified by the style that is peculiar. Of course, a musical style is not made overnight. This is a slow and gradual process, almost always with styles overlapping each other, so as to allow the "new" to emerge from the "old." For this reason, musicologists hardly agree on the dates that mark the beginning and end of a period, or even on the names to be used in the description of the style that characterizes it. However, here we present a way of dividing the history of western music into six major periods, indicating the corresponding dates:

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THE PREEMINENCE OF ROME

THE PREEMINENCE OF ROME As imperial capital, the Rome of the first centuries of Of ours, it housed a large number of Christians, who gathered and celebrated Their rites in secret. In 313 the emperor Constantine granted Christians the Rights and the same protection as for practitioners of other religions of the empire; From the outset the Church emerged from its underground life and during the course of the century Iv Latin replaced the Greek as the official language of the liturgy in Rome. As you The Roman Emperor was declining, that of the bishop of Rome was increasing, and Gradually began to recognize the preeminent authority of Rome in Questions of faith and discipline. With an increasing number of converts and riches Church began to build large basilicas, and services could no longer be relatively informal, as they were in the early days. Between the fifth century and the seventh century many Popes engaged in the revision of...

Categories, shapes and types of chandeliers

Categories, shapes and types of chandeliers In the set of chanting pieces we can distinguish those that use texts Biblical texts and those that use non-biblical texts; Each of these divisions can be Subdivided into pieces about prose texts and pieces about poetic texts. Examples Biblical texts in prose are the lessons of the offices and the epistle and gospel of the mass As biblical texts in prose we have the psalms and the songs. In the Biblical prose texts include the Te Deum, several antiphons and three of the four antiphons Marianas; Songs with non-biblical poetic texts are hymns and sequences. The chant can still be classified according to how it is sung (or was Sung in more remote times), in antifonal (in which choirs sing alternately), Responsorial (the voice of the soloist alternates with the chorus) and direct (without alternation). A third classification is based on the relationship between the notes and the syllabl...

The situation of music at the end of the ancient world Who lived in a province of the Roman Empire in the fifth century of the Christian era Could see roads where people had once traveled and now no longer Traveled, temples and arenas built for multitudes now voted to abandon them And to the mine, and life, generation after generation, a little everywhere, taking Increasingly poor, insecure and more difficult. Rome, in the time of its greatness, Peace in most of western Europe, as well as in Africa and Asia, but in the meantime had weakened and was no longer able to defend. The barbarians were coming from the North and the East, and civilization The whole of Europe was disintegrating into fragments that only many centuries later Would gradually begin to merge again, giving birth to modern nations. The decline and fall of Rome marked European history so deeply That we still find it difficult today to realize that, in parallel with the Process of destruction, an inverse process of...

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