Renaissance music

Renaissance Timeline

By yokfro
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Renaissance Timeline

  • Cantus Firmus
    May 30, 1450

    Cantus Firmus

    based on Gregorian Chant
  • First Printed Music
    Sep 13, 1465

    First Printed Music

  • University of Oxford
    Apr 17, 1499

    University of Oxford

    Institutes degrees in music
  • Michelangelo completes David
    Jan 29, 1504

    Michelangelo completes David

  • Protestant Reformation
    Mar 5, 1517

    Protestant Reformation

    Martin Luther
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Pelestrina
    Jan 29, 1530

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Pelestrina

    High Renaissance Composer
  • Apr 27, 1530

    French Chanson

    Polyphonic French Song (2-4 voices)
  • Jan 29, 1537

    First Conservatories of music are founded

    Naples for boys, Venice for girls
  • Jan 29, 1554

    Palestrina's first book of masses

    Dedicated to Pope Julius III
  • Italian Madrigal
    Nov 23, 1570

    Italian Madrigal

    Polyphonic Secular (4-6 singers)
  • Harps were added to orchestras

    Harps were added to orchestras

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