1. Lesson 6 PRE-CLASSICAL PERIOD Objectives: After doing though this lesson you should be able to; 1. name the some outstanding composers in the pre-classical period. 2. give their contribution to music. 3. make a clearer cut impression they made on a particular period. NEXT CONTENTS PREVIOUS 4 5 Lesson 7 8 9

3. Some of the outstanding composers of this period were: Johann Sebastian Batch On the 21st of March 1685 in the town of Eisenach, bach, one of the greatest musicians who ever lived was bored. He belonged to a musical family. In all parts of all beautiful German province of Thuringia lived his aunts, uncles, cousins and sisters who sang and played the organ, the flute or the fiddle. As soon as Bach was old enough, his father taught him to play violin. Today, back in known as the father of modern music. A scientist as well as musicians, he started a system of tuning which make possible for any scale to be played upon the same instruments. NEXT CONTENTS PREVIOUS