History Of Music Final Timeline

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  • Period: 500 BCE to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    -A document written by Guido of Arezzo that established principles that were crucial in developing musical notation and the concept of polyphony
    -Advocated for the use of two voice organum with the vox organalis usually a forth below
    -Established rules for parallel motion, oblique motion, and contrary motion
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    -A document written by Philippe de Vitry that revolutionized musical notation
    -Established the duple subdivision of the beat
    -Metric changes with colored notes
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria ... virgo serena

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg(A Mighty Fortress is our God)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    -A mass sine nomine composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina that includes six voices(soprano, alto, two basses, two tenors)
    -A prime example of complex polyphony that satisfied the requirements of the Catholic Church

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata Pian 'e forte

    -Composed and performed in St. Marks Cathedral in Venice
    -First musical composition to use instrumentation as well as volume markings
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    Baroque Era

  • L' Orpheo by Claudio Monteverdi

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

    Important Positions:
    -Weimer(1708-1717)
    -Cöthen(1717-1723)
    -Leipzig(1723-1750)

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L 'Estro Armonico

    -Served as an inspiration for harmonic structure

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    -Was used for educating and training young music students on the keyboard

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    -A treatise on harmony
    -Revolutionized music theory
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    Franz Josef Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    -One of France's best composers, conductors, and violinists
    -US President John Adams called him "the most accomplished man in Europe"

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" premiere date in London

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Premiere Date

  • Schubert Erlkönig Composition Date

  • Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Complete Publication

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    Chopin Mazurkas Composition Date Range

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Composition Date

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr Composition Date

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Premiere Date

  • Bizet Carmen Premiere Date

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Premiere of Complete Cycle

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4 Premiere Date

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 Premiere Date

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

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag Published

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia Premiere

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps Premiere

  • Period: to

    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 Date

  • 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’’

  • Period: to

    Edgard Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine