Music 315 Scholars
"Style Section"
**The Rubric**

The following "rubric" shall hopefully help you in understanding some basic style issues regarding different eras in/of music [special thanks to Scholar Ann - Fall 2003 - for providing me good notes on that about which I have mumbled during class discussion - should be helpful to many Scholars of the future - Grrr...]

Early/Middle Ages	Renaissance	Baroque	Classical	Romantic
- Gregorian Chant	- madrigals	- tend toward sacred	- enlightenment	- tend toward secular
- monophonic	- recorder music	- balance - instrumental/vocal	- tend toward secular	- extreme emphasis on myths, folklore and all-things magical
- linear style	- instrumental - brass	- rise of opera	- tend toward instrumental	- balance - instrumental/vocal
- sacred	- tend toward secular	- rise of oratorio	- form - element of choice	- bigger is better
	- polyphonic	- monody	- simplicity - lightness	- program music
			- elegance	- weighty