FMP-A brief history of western music

Many of you have seen the cdza video. "An Abridged History of Western Music in 16 Genres 1cdza Opus No. 7" (below) that went viral this summer. (cdza founded by Joe Sabia, Micheal Thurber, and Matt McCorkle,create musical video experiments.) To compliment this lively celebration of the history of western music from ragtime to reggae and baroque to bluegrass, we thought about how we can put this music into words. Here's a quick list of definitions,drawn from the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music,to help lead you through each genre.

Gregorian chant:-

Solo and unison plainsong choral chants associated with Pope Gregory I which became the fundamental music of the Roman Catholic Church.

Baroque:-

(Fr) Bizzare. Term applied to the Ornate architecture of German and Austria during the 17th and 18th Centuries and borrowed to describe comparable music developments from about 1600 to the deaths of Blach and Handel in mid-18th century.

Classical:-

Music composition roughly between 1750 and 1830 (i.e. post-Baroque and pre-Romantic) which covers the development of the classical symphony and concerto; music of an orderly nature,with qualities of clarity and balance,and emphasiseing formal beauty rather than emotional expression.