Instrumental music rose in popularity through the widespread use of the harpsichord and organ. New instrumental forms also emerged: the sonata (for solo instruments) and the concerto (for a solo instrument backed by an orchestra). A new style of religious music developed-oratorio-written for solo voices, chorus and orchestra.
It rejected Renaissance serenity for dramatic contrasts in tone, volume and pace. In the early 1600s, Baroque style emerged in Italy. J S Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No 1, Allegro. It became popular in Elizabethan England and helped bolster the trend toward secular music. The madrigal-a form of secular song in five or six parts-was invented in about 1530 in the Netherlands and Italy. The northern European tradition of elaborate polyphony merged with the southern (mainly Italian) taste for chords and harmonies. In the Renaissance, instrumental music emerged as a separate style from vocal music, and tunes were written specifically for particular instruments.
It’s not until music makes its way into Western society that historians begin to form a clearer picture of how antiquated music blossomed into what we listen to today.Įxample of a monophonic Gregorian chant, "Deum Verum" The Hurrians, a people so ancient as to have been all but forgotten, notated complete songs as early as 1400 BC-but aside from what we’ve learned through a few remaining relics, we’ve got a tenuous grasp on how large a part music played in their culture. The Ancient Egyptians played harps, flutes and clarinets-but it’s difficult to even to guess what their creations sounded like. In the millennia that followed, primitive instruments-as simple as the human voice or as intricate as the lute-evolved greatly, as did the uses to which they were put. Though researchers are still trying to discern exactly how long music, in any form, has existed, the oldest instruments ever discovered date back about 42,000 years.
Hurrian "Hymn 6" is the oldest recorded melody, dating from 1400BC King help lay the groundwork for the meteoric rise of The Beatles? In a new series, we trace music from its origins to the present day. How did we progress from Gregorian chants to orchestral symphonies? And how did B.B.
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