History of Western Music II Primitivism: Bartók and Stravinsky Primitivism is a word that describes the condition or quality that belongs to something crude and unrefined. When this word primitivism is applied to the arts, such as the visual arts or music, it can be describe...

Claude Debussy composed his music with an emphasis on sound, sensuous, and sumptuous sound. His music turned away from German-Romanticism and German music with its chromatic harmonies and melodic formulas. Debussy uses color as his basic building block and in doing so has constructed a style of musi...

Music For Children Music is an important component for all people to posses in their lives. A child should be introduced to music at a very young age. The introduction of every type of music from classical all the way to modern rock is important. This gives a child the ability to form th...

From the year 800 A.D, music has evolved and developed in many different ways over 6 main musical periods. These different stages in music's history all have their own distinguishing features such as the type of instruments used, the texture of the music and the sound that is created through di...