Music of the Classical Civilizations

Music of the Middle Ages

Music in the Modern Period

• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Rococo and Classica
• Romantic
• Late Romantic
• Modern

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Prehistory: 30,000 BC - 3,000 BC Music of the Classical Civilizations: 3,000 BC- AD 500 8000-600 BC: Mesopotamia 800 BC: Earliest Recorded Written Music 3,000-270 BC: Egypt 4,000-3000 BC: Evidence of Harps, Flutes, Lyres and double clarinets 2,000 BC: Percussion instruments are added to Egyptian orchestra 1230-100 BC: Greece 800 BC: Choral and Dramatic music are developed. 800-700 BC: The Age of the Rhapsode ca. 700-600 BC: Arion introduces the strophe and antistrophe musical structure. ca. 600: Pythagoras introduces the octave 520-447: BC: The Life of Pindar 700 BC-AD 325: Rome 700-500 BC: Etruscan 150 BC-AD 150: Rome imitates Greece 100-350: Early Christian Music 150-350: The Late Roman Empire   325-1453: Byzantium 350: The Schola Cantorum is founded 386: Ambrose, Bishop of Milan introduces hymn singing

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