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There are six periods of music and in the following paragraphs I will be comparing all of them. The six periods of music are the Medieval, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Classical, the Romantic, and the Twentieth Century. Music of the Medieval Period consisted of chant written for the church by monks and traveling musicians who remained anonymous. Chant is monophonic, speech like, and modal. During this period music was used strictly for the church to enable it to present religious text to an illiterate congregation. The Ren