NCFE-AUD-405 MUSICIANSHIP & THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
NCFE LEVEL 4 IN AUDIO & MUSIC PRODUCTION
WESTERN MUSICAL ERAS ESSAY

Name : Abel Varghese
ID No. : AAT/MPDN/00029/BLR
Starting Date : 08/05/2016
Submission Date : 13/05/2016
Assessor : Raemus Casterlino

Content
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..03
Medieval Music……………………………………………………………………....04
Renaissance…………………………………………………………………………..05
Baroque...…………………………………………………………………………….06
Classical……………………………………………………………………………...07
Romantic……………………………………………………………………………..08
20th Century music…………………………………………………………………...09
21st Century………………………………………………………………………….10

Introduction
Music is said to be present in the ancestral period and it was first evolved from Africa and was later spread to the west, which later on became a fundamental constituent of life. Each era existed for a period of time, such as the pre-historic music, ancient music, biblical period , western musical period etc. The western musical era of music will be mentioned in detail below. This period consisted of the medieval music, renaissance music, baroque, classical, 20th century music, and 21st century music.

Medieval Music
The western music is popularly known for the Gregorian chant also known as the plain chant. This was during years 500 – 1400. It was more of the vocal religious practices of the roman catholic church. The plainchants had very little pitch change and had consisted of only a single melody and lacked harmony. There are no back ground singers or instruments. These kind of music was usually sung by the monks, nuns, or the clerics and not by the professional singers. The first large body of decipherable, secular songs that have survived, comes from the 12th and 13th centuries which was written by French noblemen Troubadours and the Trauveres who were from france. Their songs were played mainly by