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Antiquity - 500AD - 500BC Medieval - 500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance - - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque - - Counterpoint, small orchestras, (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), string quartets, harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical - - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic - - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism, symphonic poem 20th Century - - Rejection of common practice Important Medieval Composers - Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines)Perotin - 4 - voice organum John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths Guillaume de Machaut Important Renaissance Composers - Guillaume Dufay - late life renaissance Palestrina - mostly sacred music, over 100 madrigals both secular and sacred William Byrd - known for survival in protestant England (he was catholic) Josquin des Prez Giovani Gabrieli Thomas Weelkes Important Baroque Composers - Claudio Monteverdi - transition from the renaissance to the baroque Lully - most important french composer, death by cane (gangrene) Vivaldi - "the red priest" 500 concertos Handel - studied law first, messiah J.S Bach - orphan, organist, well-tempered clavier & brandenburg concertos Henry Purcell System used to catalogue the compositions of J.S. Bach - BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis Important Classical Composers - Haydn - established standard for symphony, sonata, and string quartet Mozart - Don Giovanni, the magic flute