Week 31 - Periods in Western Music History
Stuff done this week: - Went to the library and borrowed several books on Medieval music and musical instruments. - Read the course material and started on my first assignment. Through my research I should try to find dates for each of the main historical periods of music. These are: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Twentieth Century. ____________________________________________________ What I learned: I am hesitant to use Wikipedia as a source, for it is a source that is constantly liable to be updated. So I found some sources in the library. Sources are listed at the bottom of this page, using the Harvard referencing system. The coming period I shall try to find more sources. 1. Music History A history of Western Art Music can be approached in several ways I suppose. But the most conventional way is to describe it in sets of defining time periods. From literature, we identify five (or even six) principal periods: 1. Middle Ages (500 - 1500) This refer...