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100 BCE
epitafio de Seikilos
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar (stele) from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883. -
600
Canto gregoriano
The term Gregorian chant is a type of plainchant, simple, monodic and with music subject to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church, although it is sometimes used in a broad sense or even as a synonym for plainchant. -
992
Guido de Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist who constitutes one of the central figures of the music of the Middle Ages along with Hucbaldo. -
1098
Hildegard von Biegen
Hildegard of Bingen, September 17, 1179) was a German holy Benedictine abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the Middle Ages. -
1150
Léonin
Léonin or Magister Leoninuses, together with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, related to the School of Notre Dame.
An anonymous English monk, known today by the name Anonymous IV, wrote a century after his death that Léonin was the best organum composer for the expansion of divine service. This is the only written reference we have of Léonin. -
1155
perotin
Perotín, called in French Pérotin le Grand ("the Great") or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus (also Perotinus Magnus and Magister Perotinus) was a medieval French composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the composer most important of the School of Notre Dame de Paris -
1217
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart de Ventadorn was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best-known troubadour of the style called trobar leu. -
1252
Alfonso X el sabio
Alfonso X was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germany on 1 April. He renounced his claim to Germany in 1275, and in creating an alliance with the Kingdom of England in 1254, his claim on the Duchy of Gascony as well -
1322
Ars antiqua
Ars antiqua, also called Ars veterum or Ars vetus, refers to the music of Europe of the late Middle Ages approximately between 1170 and 1310, covering the period of the Notre Dame School of polyphony and the years after. It includes the 12th and 13th centuries. This is followed by other periods in the history of medieval music called ars nova and ars subtilior. -
1325
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini, also known by many names was an Italian composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker who was a central figure of the Trecento style in late Medieval music. One of the most revered composers of the second half of the 14th century, he was by far the most famous composer in Italy. -
1377
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the ars nova from the subsequent ars subtilior movement.[1] Regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century,[2][3] he is often seen as the century's leading European composer. -
1400
Ars Nova
Ars nova (from the Latin "new art") is an expression due to the theorist Philippe de Vitry that designates musical production, both French and Italian, after the last works of the ars antiqua until the predominance of the Burgundian school, which will occupy the first place in the musical panorama of the West in the 15th century