![]() This year we had cooler weather when it was supposed to be summer. ![]() Sometimes it takes weeks to notice it's really “warmer.” Sometimes you get weather that “feels like” spring in January. That doesn't mean you go to bed on March 20th when it's winter and you wake up on March 21st and it's spring. (A solstice means the highest or lowest point the sun reaches in the sky an equinox means when the length of day and night are the same or equal.) The changes start happening around the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes around March 21st and September 21st. The “starting points” are the Summer and Winter Solstices which occur around June 21st and December 21st. The transitions in between are Spring and Fall (or Autumn). ![]() The major changes are between Winter and Summer. In one sense, a year is a cycle of seasons – out of winter, it begins to get warm once it's gotten too hot, then it starts cooling off and we're back to winter again. In many ways, you could say this is going back to “earlier values” and then the process starts over again. Then a bigger change occurs when people begin thinking “that's going too far” and something new happens, usually as a reaction. Sure, every generation changes a little but then it begins reaching a time where these changes become more pronounced, developing toward something else. It may take a few years before any significant shift happens or, once it's started before it finishes.įor a period of several decades, things seem basically the same. These changes don't happen somewhere between December 31st, '99 and January 1st, '00. Things also tend to move in cycles or waves, returning to something that's comparable or similar in basics – not the same, but with similar basic traits. These changes do not necessarily mean the new one is an improvement or better than the older one, just different. It should've happened in 1700, you'd think, but maybe it's because things moved more slowly in those days. The only one that doesn't happen in a '00 year is the change between the Baroque Period of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel and the Classical Period of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Josef Haydn. ( In this time-line - above - the dark vertical lines represent centuries: composers' names in blue belong to the Renaissance Age (before 1600) the green ones to the Barqoue Age (1600-1750) yellow represents the 50 years of the Classical Age (1750-1800) the pink ones, the Romantic Age (1800-1900).) It seems every century, things change – not that certain things don't change more often than that like decades and generations or even the seasons of a year.īut in music – and in many of the other arts – there are changes in the sound or style of music almost every one hundred years which we divide into “periods” since 1600 called Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern, though no one's come up with a name for the “most modern” music that's being written today in a New Century.
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