Different Music Periods & Specific Composers

Updated July 21, 2003

EARLY MUSIC AND INSTRUMENTS
GENERAL
TIMELINE: Classical Music
  American Popular Music Before 1900 - LSC-Kingwood
  Essentials of Music: Eras 
  Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Genres 
Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Musical Periods
  Almanac of Classical Music History 
  almanaCLASSICALmusic SEARCH
  "Great Books" - Music Hall Entrance
  TIMELINE: American Music: 1890-1900 
  TIMELINE: American Popular Music: 1900-1909 
  TIMELINE: American Music:1910-1919 
  TIMELINE: American Popular Music:1920-1929 
Music Timeline - Your source for classical, - contemporary 
  !Fortissimo! 
  Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their Music 
  Classical Music History Timelines on the Web ... The History Beat  
  The Moldenhauer Archives - Western music from the medieval period through the Modern Era


ANCIENT
Ancient Music 
More Ancient Music 
  Ancient Music History
  Neanderthal Flute

Evidence of Harmony in Ancient Music; Archaeology & Oldest Song
Bronze Age Horns - Introduction
Aristotle on Music (384-322 BC)
Music of the Ancient Near East - Home Page
Ancient Music Instruments
Roman Musical Instruments
For more, visit my General Ancient History, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome pages.

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE
What is early music?
Early Music FAQ
Medieval and Renaissance Music - Early Music Resources
MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Celebration of the Feminine Divine in Women's Early Music
Women's Early Music WEB-RING Index
Women's Early Music / Art / Poetry
Early Women Composers Chronology
Music and Verse in Anglo-Saxon and Viking Times
Medieval and Early Music
Early music (in general)
Medieval music
more Medieval Music
Music of the Renaissance
Gregorian Chant Home Page
Why is chant called Gregorian?
From Gregorian Chant to Opera's Origins
Sixteenth Century Ballads
Renaissance Music 1450 to 1600
The Internet Renaissance Band
Renaissance Singers/Dancers/Music & Instruments
Ancestral Instruments - David Marshall
Pictures of Lute Players
Renaissance & Baroque Society
Early Music on the Web ... The Classical Music Beat  
For more, please visit my Middle Ages and Renaissance pages.


BAROQUE - ROMANTIC - CLASSICAL - 19TH CENTURY
Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Music
THE SONATA CYCLE
17th-century music
THE BAROQUE ERA (1600 -- 1750)
Baroque Music 1600-1750
Classical Music 1750-1820
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1740 -- 1825)
Early 18th-century music
Late 18th-century music
Early 19th-century music
Late 19th-century music
Romantic Music 1820-1900
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1825 - 1900)
Baroque Music on the Web ... The Classical Music Beat  
Romantic Period on the Web ... The Classical Music Beat  

20TH
& 21ST CENTURY
IMPRESSIONISM (1880 -- 1920) AND THE NEW MEDIA
Early 20th-century music
Contemporary music
20th-Century Music: Homepage
20th-Century Music: COMPOSERS
Music History 102: The Twentieth Century
Robert Moog - The Moog Synthesizer
For info on popular music(i.e. rock, jazz, blues, swing, etc.) visit my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page.


GENERAL COMPOSER INFO
TIMELINE: Major Classical Composers
  Performing Arts Encyclopedia Home (Library of Congress)
  Your World of Classical Music - Composers 
  Classical Net - Composer Master Index
  Composers' Portraits 
Essentials of Music: Composers 
  Music History: a Guide to Western Composers & their Music 
Classical Composers Database 
   Worldwide Internet Music Resources : Composers 
  Composers Page 
  Famous Classical Composers 
  Welcome to the Classical Composers Database 
  Classical Composers 
   20th-Century Music: COMPOSERS

SPECIFIC COMPOSER INFO
(in alphabetical order)

B
The J.S. Bach Home Page
Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - J.S. Bach
Web Sites with Bach Information
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Beethoven Depot
Welcome to the Beethoven Center
More Ludwig van Beethoven
  The Official Leonard Bernstein Site - The Leonard Bernstein Collection
Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897)

C
John Cage
Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Chopin
Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990) - The Aaron Copland Collection ca. 1900-1990
    20th-Century Music: Aaron Copland


D
Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918)
Dvorák, Antonín (1841 - 1904)

E
The Elgar Weekend
Edward Elgar
Ellington Tour Preview

F
Franck, César (1822 - 1890)
Stephen Foster Songs
  American Experience | Stephen Foster 

G
Gershwin Collection
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page
Woody Guthrie and the American Spirit

H
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Handel, George Frideric (1685 - 1759)

L
Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886)
Devine Entertainment - Liszt's Rhapsody
Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum Budapest

M
Gustav Mahler WWW Pages
Did you know? Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
The Mozart Project
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Amadeus -- An Apologia - the myth behind the fantastic movie, AMADEUS
O
Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
P
Pachelbel's Canon Home Page (by Woody Jin)
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891 - 1953)

R
Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937)
S
Antonio Salieri
Peter Schickele - PDQ Bach
Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856)
Sibelius, Jean (1865 - 1957)
Smetana, Bedrich (1824 - 1884)
John Philip Sousa
The Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain
Johann Strauss Society: Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss Jr.(1825-1899)
Igor Stravinsky

T
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840 - 1893)
V
Giuseppe Verdi
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741)

W
Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883)


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