Evolution of Music (2100 BC-2023 AD)
Video Overview & Insights
Timestamps:
Ancient Music (00:00)
Medieval Music (02:56)
Remember this a few years down the road. A.I. took their jobs first. Because a lot of talent got locked away and hidden for so long. R I.P. music industry
Renaissance Music (05:29)
Baroque Music (07:24)
So
Classical Music (09:10)
Romantic Music (10:37)
this is evolution of WESTERN music with few oriental but still christian songs.
Modernism/Popular Music (12:56)
Notes:
• Some years might be inaccurate.
• Only 1 song per artist/composer and only 1 song per year to keep the video shorter. Sorry if I didn't pick your favorite songs/artists.
3% Other world songs
97% European and American songs
• Blinding Lights was actually released in 2019, but the song's popularity rose massively in the next year.
• The Epic of Gilgamesh was rather a story/poem, not a song. Music arrangements were added later.
This video is inspired by: https://youtu.be/OW3JuoVRSHg
#evolutionofmusic #musicevolution
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Bro reached heaven in 1630
@liammdiaz47942012년 강남스타일 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
한국인으로서 자랑스럽고 경이롭다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Thanks for posting. Everything prior to baroque could be a snippet of a prog rock album and the titles of the songs are gold mines for prog rock album titles!😂 And Brahms was a hottie!! 😅😅😅
@ke2lifeHow would I like to see this updated for 2025 AD...
@NicholasHenryMadsonNatanAfter 2000AD it went back to the 1500’s.
@MANDREW33Wheres gnarly at
@AliciaEncinas-u8g.
@lizbethsilva3006Wow just wow
@richardperry12638:13 temazo 🤘
@C0mpu73r67I was born in 800 bc and I remember them singing the song it was so peak
@Sully02EMINEM IS THE BEST ONE
@MCMITCH32In 1987 AD Rick astley -never gonna give you up became meme in 2026
@ikeczchuYou Lan :fire:
@zachlewiA partir dos anos 2000 as músicas em sua maioria começam a ficar ruim 😕
@Claudia-81So I think personally we were doing great up until the 1940s where we had a bit of a decline in the quality of music may be due to the radios and the microphones that were being used at the time more than the people actually playing and singing the music. Things picked back up in the 1950s but then started to decline again around 2015. Round 2019 to 2020 I lost almost complete respect for the American music industry. A good American song might come out every now and again but mostly all the good music has been coming from other places like S Korea, Japan, and many other places.
@keiannathreadgill3495This evolution path is fundamentally flawed. You simply cannot place Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel or Bartók in the same evolutionary timeline as ABBA, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.
Don’t get me wrong—I admire all of them. But they belong to different musical traditions with different artistic goals.
If your timeline is about the evolution of Western art music, then where are Lutosławski, Penderecki, Ligeti, Messiaen or Xenakis? They are the true successors to Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.
What you’ve done is comparable to tracing the history of painting and then suddenly replacing Picasso with photography. Photography is a wonderful art form, but it follows a different path. One does not replace the other.
Popular music and classical music evolved in parallel. Mixing them into a single historical line doesn’t clarify music history—it distorts it.
Popularity is not the same thing as artistic lineage.
19:37 this is the best
@Thắng-c8d8:52 I'm there
@Johann.Sebastian.Bach_1645In 4:41 the born a hero hero tall lights out so funny😂
@Noobie_Lilacofficial200320:28 me when i hurt myself and my mom talking
@astroisthemoon19:37 ._.
@Bruno_8384the celetic pipe💀
@alyssayoung57120:28 probably the best song
@Jakegames928785:07 is like folk dance
@Jakegames92878This image of Johannes Ockeghem at 5:50 looked too real to be a painting from the Renaissance Era... I wonder how they made this painting of him looked like it came from 1999?
@charming2arabstk22:04 kimbra copy mj song
@Mj_recreating19273Wow so music really changed after 1931 AD
@marcuscormier94717:46 that's the church helium balloon meme😭✌️
@noahballew-l8gI saw micheal Jackson and I clicked immediately lol
@FrankMae-k1rHee hee~
@YuriinyahАктриса обнажённого театра
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Ванильный амбре и распущенный волос,
малиновый шёпот, кулон на цепях,
невинные, добрые глазки, как лотос,
меня приютили тут, возле себя.
Прильнув теплотой миротворно и тихо,
во мне угасила тревоги и грусть.
Беспечно отдался под юное иго,
под мягкость объятий, истории уст.
Я сбросил броню у диванов роскошных,
совсем распахнулся душой крепостной.
Из радостей мира, какие возможны,
в дыму вдохновляюсь милашкой ночной.
Я пьян и блаженен под алым навесом.
К ней искренней плотью и взором тянусь.
И с этой, давно уж знакомой, принцессой
развратно и чувственно жизнью горжусь!
Быть может, притворщица, гейша, актёрша,
но всё ж не могу заподозрить во зле!
Пусть общая муза! Пускай стриптизёрша!
Но честная в лёгком своём ремесле!
My father sang every day of the wedding for my mother an ancient Egyptian song of love. (Born in 1500 BC, in Thebes)
@usuário302-779:03 most iconic song in the music history
@Lizzie-qzy1:51 the emperor of china from Mulan!😱
@ChadQuesada4:13 what a beautiful song definitely way ahead of its time
@gawesh0Did he said sexy
@mladenobrenovic8709Even in our indian bollywood 80s 90s songs are more meaningful
and have beautiful melodies!
Had to say classic old vintage melodies are kinda engaging ! Nowadays songs are just nahh.. even though I'm gen z i enjoyed listening to old songs rather than nowadays songs
1:01 mosquitos created this masterpiece
@justadude_11Incredible to see the rise and then decline of popular music, In my opinion it started declining around the late 2000's early 10's. it started a sharp rise from the 50's possibly even the 40's, but big music producers have ruined it by over producing repetitive nonsense.
@Westy18925:22 Now it sounds like the music from the movie Tinkerbell.
@rebel_MinReh2:01 It sounds like the music from the live-action Alice in Wonderland.
@rebel_MinRehASASEXYSMSJHSH3HSSU
@lookininureyes