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                               Welcome everybody to Shereen's
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First of all, I would like to acknowledge a few people who have one way or another inspired and prompt me to create this website on the something I have grew up with; my first love~...music .
To my parents, Tony & Jean....for their unending support and love,
My sisters, Marlene...my mentor, Lilian...my music analyst,
My brother....my beat and tempo master,
To my computer lecturer, Ms. Jasmine Low....my ever patient, composed    and elegant educationist.....(oh yah!she's evaluating this!!) and
To author, Roger Kamien.....who have taught me a great deal about appreciating music in his book.

Music is very much part of us. It is definitely for me because I believe it keeps me alive. I named this website Music Appreciation because we need to appreciate thus enjoying the serene effect music has for our souls....the healer for our souls. Imagine our life without music....life would be so empty.
Basically what I have done here is to bring all of you through time with a few facts and types of music in each period of time.. I would try to update it from time to time if time permits. Browse through my webpages and if you have anything to add on, please e-mail to me. Remember, music is a universal language!!

Music in the Middle Ages

A thousand years of European history are spanned by the phrase Middle Ages. Beginning around 450 with the disintegration of the Roman empire, this era witness the 'dark ages', a time of upheavals, migration and wars. But the later Middle ages(until about 1450) were a period of cultural growth: romanesque churches and monastries(1000-1150) and gothic cathedrals(1150-1450) were constructed, towns grew, and universities were founded.

Music in the Renaissance

The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in europe have come to be known as the Renaissance, People the spoke of 'rebirth' and 'renaissance' of human creativity. It was a period of exploration and adventure in all horizons of life. This includes music. Music was greatly expended and with the invention of printing, the circulation of music is widened thus increasing the number of composers and performers. As in the middle ages, vocal music was more important than instrumental music.

Baroque Music

Though the word baroque has at various times meant bizarre, flamboyant and elaborately ornamented, modern historians use it simply to indicate a particular style in art Baroque style in music changes during this short period of time whereby some music was composed for text conveying extreme emotion and the text rule the music and with that opera is created. Later some of the music was created for instruments..instrumentall music. And the emphasis through this period is diferrent....homophonic texture than polyphony.

The Classical Period

There was a transitional time from baroque style ot the full flowering of the classical style.Polyphonic texture were neglected in favor if a tuneful melody and simple harmony. Here composers offer contrast of mood and theme, light and graceful music. Classical music offers a variety of emotions that would actually fluctuate emotions. Melody lines are most easy to remember and it is tuneful.

The Romantic Period

Composers of the romantics period continued to use the musical form of the classical period. The romantic preference for expressive, song like melody also go out out of classical style.. The difference between them are that music in Romantic period tend to have greater ranges of color, dynamic and pitch. Also harmonic vocabulary is broader.

The Twentieth Century

During the twentieth century, differences among styles have been so great that it seems composers use different musical languages, not merely dialects of the same musical language. radical changes of style occur even within the works of individual composers.