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Period: 500 to 1450
Medieval Era
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Period: 768 to 814
Empire of Charlemange
Enforced that all chants be sung the same throughout their territory resulting in the formation of Gregorian Chants -
900
Musica Enchiriadis
Describes the different ways a group can sing together( Parallel, Mixed parallel organum). -
Period: 991 to 1033
Guido of Arezzo
Micrologus. Invented the Guidonian hand as well as the bases of the modern staff -
1030
Guido's Micrologus
Developed Hexachord system -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
Famous composer -
1100
Troubadours/Trouveres
Poet composers in France -
Period: 1163 to 1250
Notra Dame Schools
Leonin: 1163-1190
Perotin: 1190-1225 -
1280
Franco of Cologne
Ars cantus mensurabilis: established breve notation -
Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
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1323
Ars nova treatise
Developed further breve subdivisions leading to time signatures -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
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1450
Gutenberg Printing Press / Movable type
Allowed for better distribution of literary works and music resulting in the sale of both -
Period: 1450 to
Renaissance Period
Age of Rebirth and the individual -
1515
Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua
Likely Josquin de Prez's last mass -
1527
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
One of Martin Luther's masses -
1538
Il bianco e dolce cigno
Arcadelt -
Period: 1550 to
Guilio Caccini
Le nuove Musiche, Basso continuo -
1567
Pope Marcellus Mass
Mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
Expressive Dissonance, Cruda Amarilli -
Period: 1580 to
Concerto delle donne
Court in Ferrara -
Sonata Piano e forte
Composed by Giovanni Gabriel for St. Mark's Cathedral. Introduced the Cornetto and Sackbut -
Period: to
Baroque
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L'Orfeo
Pologue, 5 acts -
Public Concert
England first pioneered public -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
Baroque Composer -
Period: to
George Frederic Handel
Famous British ( Formally German) composer who maintained his fame throughout his life. -
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell. One hour in length. -
Op. 3: L'estro armonico
Vivaldi Concertos -
Brandenburg Concertos
A collection of Concertos presented to the Margrave of Brandenburg -
Treatise on Harmony
Jean-Philippe Rameau -
Well Tempered Clavier
2 Volumes -
Period: to
Pre Classical
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Period: to
Franz Josef Haydn
Prominent composer who worked for Prince Nicholas von Esterhazy -
La serva padrona
Opera composed by Giovanni Pergolesi -
The Messiah
One of Handel's most famous works. Premiered in Dublin in 1742. This premiere was during Lent. -
Essays on Playing the Flute
Source of performance etiquette for the 18th century. Applied to a variety of aspects -
Period: to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Child prodigy. Held as one of the greatest composers of all time. -
Orfeo ed Eurdidice
Composed by Christoph W. Gluck. Thought to reform the complex opera to a more simplistic noble style. -
Period: to
Beethoven
The greatest composer who lead the Classical world to the Romantic -
Period: to
Viennese Classical
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Piano Concerto No. 23
Composition for piano and orchestra by Mozart -
Don Giovanni
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte inspired by the tale of Don Juan -
Period: to
12 London Symphonies
A Haydn composition for the city of London separated into 2 parts. -
Period: to
Franz Schubert
German composer and pianist -
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Symphony written by Beethoven premiered in Vienna Austria at Theater an der Wien -
Erlking
A song poem. The lyrics were written by JW Goethe and composed by Schubert -
Barber of Seville
opera of Gioachino Rossini -
24 Caprices, Op. 1
Niccolo Paganini composed in 1805. Made for alli Artisti/ professional musicians -
Symphony No. 8
Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony in B minor -
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Choral composed in 1823 which premiered in 1824 -
Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz's symphony exemplifying program music -
Period: to
Mazurkas Op. 7
Chopin's set of 5 mazurkas which are polish dances -
Period: to
Carnaval, Op.9
Program music of 21 characters pieces -
Liebst du um Schonheit
Composition by Clara Schumann, poem by Friedrich Ruckert -
Das Jahr
Fanny Mendelssohn song cycle -
Treatise on Instrumentation
Technical study of Western musical instruments -
Violin Concerto in E Minor
Violin Concerto composed by Mendelssohn which is his largest work. -
La traviata
one of Giuseppe Verdi's earlier works -
Period: to
Souvenir de Porto Rico
Marche de Gabaros, composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk -
Tristan und Isolde
Opera composed by Richard Wagner -
Moguchaya Kuchka
5 great composers. Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorgsky -
Boris Godunov
Composed by Mussorgsky -
Carmen
Show by Georges Bizet based on a story by Prosper Merimee -
Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Wagner's cycle of 4 music dramas -
Symphony No. 4 in E
One of the few symphonies written by Brahms -
Symphony No. 1
Mahler's Symphony preformed by Budapest Philharmonic -
The Nutcracker
Symphony written for dance by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -
Symphony No. 9 "New World"
A very popular symphony by Antonin Dvorak. -
Madame Butterfly
Opera composed by Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Luigi Illica -
Symphony No. 5 in D minor
Dmitri Shostakovich's work for orchestra premiered in the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra -
Alexander Nevsky
A film and musical score by the same name. Composed by Sergei Prokofiev and directed by Sergei Eisenstein -
Quatour pour la fin du temps
Composition by Olivier Messiaen -
Appalachian Spring
Musical composition written by Aaron Copland premiered at the Library of Congress -
4'33"
Composition by John Cage -
Period: to
Poeme Electronique
Electronic music composed by Edgard Varese -
Kind of Blue
A Miles Davis composition -
Black Angels
Composition by George Crumb -
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
A John Adams composition