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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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