History of Music

By vdelcastillo
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    This document contained a 4 line staff and relative pitches.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    This treatise established notation for time and prolation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce signo

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    This piece used 6 voice polyphony, proving that lyrics could still be clearly understood in polyphonic music.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian'e forte

    This was the first piece of music to indicate dynamics and which instruments to play.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico was published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam. This was the first set of Vivaldi's concertos that was printed.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie codified practices of his contemporaries. It became the basis for teaching functional harmony.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1 standardized equal temperament.

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    This was one of the finest orchestras in Europe. Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges was one of France's best composers, conductors, and violinists.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Premiere

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen premiere

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen premiere

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 premiere

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 premiere

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" premiere

  • Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine