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Detailed history of
Western classical music
Early music
Medieval
c.
500–1400
•
Ars antiqua
c.
1170–1310
•
Ars nova
c.
1310–1377
•
Ars subtilior
c.
1360–1420
Renaissance
c.
1400–1600
•
Transition to Baroque
Common practice period
Baroque
c.
1580–1750
•
Galant music
c.
1720–1770
•
Empfindsamkeit
c.
1740s–1780
Classical
c.
1750–1820
•
Mannheim school
c.
1740s–1780
•
Sturm und Drang
c.
1770s
•
Transition to Romantic
Romantic
c.
1800–1910
Late 19th-,
20th-
and
21st-centuries
Modernism
c.
1890–1975
•
Impressionism
c.
1890–1930
•
Expressionism
c.
1900–1930
•
Neoclassicism
c.
1920–1950
•
Serialism
c.
1920–1975
Contemporary
from
c.
1950
•
Minimalism
from
c.
1960
•
Postmodernism
from
c.
1960s
•
Postminimalism
from
c.
1980
v
t
e
Major periods
overview
:
Early
:
Medieval
(500 – 1400)
Renaissance
(1400–1600)
Common practice
:
Baroque
(1600–1750)
Classical
(1750–1830)
Romantic
(1830–1920)
Modern and contemporary
:
20th century classical
(1900–2000)
Contemporary classical
(1975–present)
Music theory
Rhythm
Harmony
Melody
Musical form
Texture
Notable composers
:
Guillaume de Machaut
Johannes Ockeghem
Josquin des Prez
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Claudio Monteverdi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Antonio Vivaldi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Liszt
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Antonín Dvořák
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Gustav Mahler
Jean Sibelius
Richard Strauss
Giacomo Puccini
Arnold Schoenberg
Béla Bartók
Dmitri Shostakovich
Igor Stravinsky
Benjamin Britten