Superius

In early vocal music, superius is the Latin language-derived name given to the highest voice or part.[1]

Periods, eras, and movements of
Western classical music
Early period
Medieval era c. 500–1400
* Ars antiqua c. 1170–1310
* Ars nova c. 1310–1377
* Ars subtilior c. 1360–1420
Renaissance era c. 1400–1600
Common practice period
Baroque era c. 1580–1750
* Late Baroque c. 1680–1750
Galant music c. 1720–1780
* empfindsamer Stil c. 1740s–1780
Classical era c. 1750–1820
* Mannheim school c. 1740s–1770
* Sturm und Drang c. 1770s
Romantic era c. 1800–1910
Late 19th-century to 20th- and 21st-centuries
Modernism c. 1890–1975
* Impressionism c. 1890–1930
* Expressionism c. 1900–1930
* 2nd Viennese School c. 1900–1960
* Neoclassicism c. 1920–1950
* Serialism c. 1920–1975
Contemporary from c. 1950
* Minimalism from c. 1950
* Postmodernism from c. 1960s
* Postminimalism from c. 1980

See also

References
  1. Arnold D. (ed), New Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford, (1983)
  • The dictionary definition of superius at Wiktionary


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