History of Music

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Arezzo's Micrologus

    1) First 4 line staff in music
    2) Relative pitch and spacing were key
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Lived in this era
  • 1323

    Ars Nova

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

    Period of musical expansion and invention
  • 1485

    Ave Maria by Josquin

    Virgo serena Motet
  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale

    Ein feste burg
  • 1538

    Arcedelt Madrigal

  • 1567

    Pope Marcellus Mass

  • O'Magnum Mysterium

    Victoria version

  • Sonata Piane Forte

    Gabrieli
    Used different dynamics to assume emotion
  • Period: to

    Baroque era

  • L'Orfeo

    One of the first Operas, sung very dramatically, had 5 acts, used castrati

  • First Public Concert In England

    On a Monday in December at 4pm
  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonia Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonido

    Published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    most influential of all theoretical work, basis for teaching functional harmony, 5 innovations

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    has 24 Preludes and Fuges, Equal Temperament
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    One of the best orchestras at the time, violinist and composer, master swordsman
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Period: to

    Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig (Elf King)

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Period: to

    Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

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

  • Scott Joplin's 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

  • Period: to

    Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Period: to

    Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine