History of Music Timeline

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  • Period: 500 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Medieval period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo’s Micrologus

    He created the hexachord system using Micrologus
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Are Nova Treatise

    Define music note lengths using note shapes.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Showed Palestrina’s rules for counterpoint.
  • 1572

    Victoria Missa O Magnum Mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata Pian e forte

    Located in St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice Italy. Created songs for instruments including the cornetto and the sackbut.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armónico

    Vivaldi’s first collection of concertos appearing in print

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Codified practices of his contemporaries, especially Corelli, most influential of all Theoretical Works, and became basis for teaching functional harmony.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard. Clavier, meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of instruments, most typically the harpsichord or clavichord, but not excluding the organ.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    One of the finest orchestras in Europe
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau 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)

  • 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

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • 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