ars antiqua and ars nova

Baroque period
British Invasion

Classical period
COMPOSERS

equal temperament

Kapellmeister

music of the spheres

Neoclassicism
neume

opera
opera in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
orchestra, historical development
organum

plainchant
Pythagorean tuning

Renaissance music
rococo
Romantic period

Stabat Mater
stylistic eras

Western music, history: 1500–present