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Period: 800 BCE to 146 BCE
Los orígenes de la música occidental
Surgió a partir de la imitación de los sonidos de la naturaleza. Las primeras bases de la música occidental se encuentra en la antigua civilización griega, estos escribieron los primeros tratados musicales. -
Period: 400 to 1400
La Edad Media
La música estaba fuertemente ligada a la religión, esta era interpretada por el clero.
En La Edad Media, surgió la notación musical(estas servian para expresar la música de manera escrita). Sus formas eran la neuma y la notacion cuadrada. -
Period: 800 to 1200
La Polifonía
Aparece en el siglo IX, este se caracteriza por la combinación de sonidos, y melodías. Esta tiene dos periodos: El Ars Antiqua y El Ars Nova. -
Period: 991 to 1050
Guido D'Arezzo
He was an Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist who is one of the central figures in music of the Middle Ages along with Hucbaldo. -
Period: 1000 to 1100
La monodía
Esta se creo q en la Edad media. Salieron dos formas de esta. la monodía religiosa(el canto gregoriano) y la música profana. -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegarda de Bingen
He was a German holy abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader, and prophetess during the middle ages. -
Period: 1130 to 1200
Bernat de Ventadorn
Also known as Bernart de Ventadour, he was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer, and poet. -
Period: 1150 to 1201
Léonin
He is, together with Perotín, the first known composer of a polyphonic organum, related to the Notre Dame School. -
Period: 1221 to 1284
Alfonso X el Sabio
He was king of the Crown of Castile and of the other kingdoms with which it was titled between 1252 and 1284. -
Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
He was a French medieval clergyman, poet and composer. His projection was enormous and he is historically the maximum representative of the movement known as Ars nova. -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
He was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker and astrologer. He was one of the most famous composers. -
Period: 1400 to 1468
Johannes Gutenberg
He was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1440. -
1455
La Imprenta
Johannes Gutenberg inventó la imprenta. Esta permitió una mayor difusión de la música. -
Period: 1455 to 1545
El Renacimiento
Al producirse transformaciones sociales, culturales y religiosas, surgió una nueva época, El Renacimiento.
Este desarolló un movimiento intelectual y cultural llamado Humanismo. -
Period: 1468 to 1529
Juan del Encina
He was a poet, musician and playwright of the Spanish Renaissance at the time of the Catholic Monarchs. Together with the Gipuzkoan Juan de Anchieta, he is considered one of the greatest exponents of religious and secular polyphony in Spain at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries. -
Period: 1500 to 1553
Cristóbal de Morales
He was an Spanish Catholic priest and chapel master being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonic school and one of the big three, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero. -
Period: 1510 to 1566
Antonio de Cabezón
He was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. -
Period: 1525 to
Giovanni da Palestrina
He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Period: 1532 to
Orlando di Lasso
He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
Period: 1533 to
Andrea Gabrieli
He was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of perhaps the most famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers. -
1546
La Reforma Protestante
Martín Lutero, fue su mayor impulsor, este movimiento consistió en la separación de sus seguidores de la iglesia católica. -
Period: 1548 to
Tomás Luis de Victoria
He was a Catholic priest, chapel master and famous polyphonic composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time. -
1563
La Contrarreforma de la Música
Este se impulsó por el Concilio de Trento.
En el que cambiaron las normas para escribir música: manteniendo el uso del latín, eliminando melodías con temática profana... -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
He was an Italian composer, violagambist, singer, choir director and priest. He composed both secular and sacred music and marked the transition between the polyphonic and madrigal tradition of the 16th century and the birth of lyric drama and opera in the 17th century. -
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Giacomo Carissimi
He was one of the most eminent Italian composers of the early Baroque and one of the main representatives of the Roman School. -
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Bárbara Strozzi
She was an Italian singer-songwriter of the Baroque. During her lifetime, she published eight volumes of her own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the time. -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
She was an Italian Baroque singer-songwriter. During her lifetime, she published eight volumes of her own music and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the time. -
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Antoni Stradivari
He was the most prominent Italian luthier. The Latin form of his last name, Stradivarius, is used to refer to his instruments. -
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Henry Purcell
He was an English composer of the Baroque. Considered one of the best English composers of all time, he incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, generating his own English style of baroque music. -
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi was a Baroque Venetian Catholic composer, violinist, impresario, teacher and priest. He was nicknamed Il prete rosso because he was a priest and had red hair -
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George Philipp Telemann
He was a German Baroque composer, although his work also had characteristics of early classicism. He is considered the most prolific composer in the history of music. -
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George Friedrich Häendel
He was a German composer, later nationalized English, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially baroque, and one of the most influential composers of Western and universal music. -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
He was a German composer, musician, conductor, choirmaster, singer, and teacher of the Baroque period.