1,000 Years of Music in 4 Minutes

Travel through a thousand years of music in under four minutes. From the quiet chants of medieval monasteries to the bold sounds of the twentieth century, this overview visits six great eras of Western music and the composers who shaped them.

🕯️ 0:00 Welcome 🕯️ 0:19 The Middle Ages (c. 500–1400) 🎨 0:55 The Renaissance (c. 1400–1600) 🎻 1:23 The Baroque Era (1600–1750) 🎹 1:57 The Classical Era (1750–1820) 🌹 2:31 The Romantic Era (1820–1900) 🎼 3:00 The 20th Century 🙏 3:27 Thank you for listening

This is the first video in our series. In the coming episodes, we'll explore each era in depth, starting with the Middle Ages. Subscribe to Moderato so you don't miss it.

Music in this video: ♪ Veni Sancte Spiritus, Gregorian chant ♪ Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli, Kyrie ♪ J. S. Bach, Prelude in C major, BWV 846, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka ♪ Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, I. Allegro ♪ Chopin, Nocturne in C-sharp minor (posth.), performed by Frank Lévy ♪ Debussy, Clair de lune, performed by Laurens Goedhart, CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) ♪ Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1, Musopen

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