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Western Music History

Early Music

c. 800s – 1400s

Medieval

c. 1400s – 1600

Renaissance

Common Practice Period

c. 1600 – 1750

Baroque

c. 1750 – 1820

Classical

c. 1800 – 1910

Romantic

The 20th and 21st Centuries

c. 1890s – 1945

Modernism

Postwar Avant-garde

c. 1970s – today

Contemporary Movements