Music 100

Week 2
Chapter 2:
The Elements of Music Lesson 2f:
Historical Styles
This lesson corresponds to Revel text, chapter 2, 2.8, p. 33.
The featured work in this chapter is Handel’s Water Music, Suite 2, no. 1
(1717)
• Style
Historical
– Describes characteristics that set apart the
music of one historical period from another
Periods and
– Describes the individual characteristics of
the music written by a single composer
Individual
Style
Historical Periods and Individual Style
• Go back to your Revel text, chapter 2, section 2.8, p.
33 to listen to our selection from Handel’s Water
Music.
• Listen to it with the listening guide to apply some of
Handel’s
the elements we have been learning about:
• form
Water
• instruments
• Historical period
Music, Suite
• style 2, no. 1
Enjoy!
Revel Quiz 2.8: Historical Periods

• You can proceed now to the brief module

quiz 2.8, p. 34, on Historical Periods.
• The quiz is due by Friday September 24,
11:59pm ET