Music Appreciation 2

Time Span

Period: Sep 14, 1000 to Sep 14, 1500

Pomposa Monastery: first time sight singing was used.

Sep 3, 1015

Pomposa Monastery: first time sight singing was used.

Guido de Aurezzo

Sep 9, 1030

Guido de Aurezzo

The Harp was invented

Sep 3, 1050

The Harp was invented

William the conquerer invades England.

Sep 28, 1066

William the conquerer invades England.

Geisslerlieder

Sep 9, 1258

The spread of Geisslerlieder with the flaggeants spread with these people whipping themeselves with instruments.

Dantes Inferno, The Divine Comedy

Sep 8, 1321

Dantes Inferno, The Divine Comedy

Geoffrey Chaucer starts to write his greatest work, but was sadly never finished.

Sep 2, 1382

Geoffrey Chaucer starts to write his greatest work, but was sadly never finished.

Gutenburg Bible

Oct 23, 1456

First major book printed with a movable printing press

The rennaisance muic

Oct 4, 1460

While Renaissance ideas were moving north from Italy, there was a simultaneous southward spread of some areas of innovation, particularly in music.

The Printing Press

Oct 4, 1470

The printing press makes music printable and more quicker to copy unlike being copied by hand

War of Roses ends

Sep 9, 1485

War of Roses ends

Leonel Power

Oct 4, 1500

Leonel Power was an English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras. Along with John Dunstaple, he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century.

England

Oct 4, 1500

the Elizabethan era marked the beginning of the English Renaissance with the work of writers William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, as well as great artists, architects

Michaelangelo's David

Sep 23, 1504

Statue created by Michaelangelo representing David the Bilblical hero of the bible

Humanism

Oct 4, 1518

An early Italian humanist who came to Poland in the mid-15th century was Filip Callimachus. Many Italian artists came to Poland with Bona Sforza of Milan, when she married King Zygmunt I of Poland in 1518.

Monody begins

Oct 26, 1600

Hamlet

Oct 26, 1600

play written by shakespeare.

As Vesta Was Descending

Oct 4, 1601

Thomas Weelkes creates the As Vesta Was Descending song

Music at Oxford

Oct 26, 1626

Professorship of music founded at Oxford Univeristy

Lully made violinists at French Court

Oct 26, 1645

Basso Continuo

Oct 26, 1650

Vienna Opera House

Oct 26, 1652

London Opera House

Oct 26, 1656

Salem Witch Trials

Oct 26, 1692

King James Bible

Oct 26, 1750