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Period: 476 to 1492
MIDDLE AGES
Started with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ended with the Discovery of America or the fall of Constantinople -
553
The Byzantines culminate the conquest of Italy.
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632
Death of Muhammad
Muslim armies conquered the Middle East, expansion of Islam. -
711
Muslims cross the Strait of Gibraltar and invade Spain
End of the Visigoth Kingdom and beginning of Arab rule in the peninsula. -
800
Carlomagno is crowned Emperor of the West.
He was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in St. Peter's Cathedral, becoming one of the most powerful rulers of his time. -
814
Carlomagno's death
Carlomagno died from a disease (pleurisy) -
905
Navarra becomes an independent kingdom.
The end of the independence of the kingdom came when Fernando the Catholic, and later his Burgundian grandson Carlos I of Spain, carried out the military conquest between 1512 and 1528 with different resistances. -
1081
Enrique IV attacks Italy.
He was the son of Emperor Henry III and the emperor of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire from 1084 to 1105. -
1105
Enrique IV of Germany is overthrown.
Henry IV was a Germanic king from 1056, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1084, until his abdication in 1105. -
1202
Fourth crusade to reconquer the Holy Land
Fourth crusade to reconquer the Holy Land, but its course changed, ending with the conquest and looting of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. -
1312
Enrique VII monarch
Enrique VII, first monarch of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire crowned as Emperor -
Period: 1400 to
THE RENAISSANCE
Shakespeare, Josquin Des Pres and Tomás Luis de Victoria are some of the most important Renaissance musicians -
1428
France revives with Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, also known as Saint Joan of Arc or the Maiden of Orleans, was a young French peasant who led the French Army in the Hundred Years' War against England, making Charles VII of Valois be crowned king of France. -
1453
Fall of the Byzantine Empire.
The Ottoman Turks took Constantinople from the Christians -
1478
Ivan III expels the Mongols from Russia
Ivan III, also known as Ivan the Great, was a great prince of Moscow and the first to adopt the title of "Sovereign of all Russia" -
1493
Foundation of the New Spanish in the new world.
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas. -
1497
Trip to the new world of Americo Vespucio.
Americo Vespucio was the cartographer who discovered that it was a new continent and it wasn't the India named it America -
1500
The Italian Renaissance begins
The Italian Renaissance begins after overcoming the crisis of the low middle ages -
1506
Construction of St. Peter's Cathedral begins
It's built in Rome -
1555
Giovanni Gabrieli
It is the main exponent of the early Baroque. His music already contains the essential stylistic elements of the new aesthetic era. -
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Baroque Period
-Homophonic texture
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Early Baroque
-Experimentation period
-Monodic style
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Isabel I 's death
The son of his cousin Maria Estuardo de Escocia, Jacobo I remains as heir -
Carlos I is executed
Carlos I is executed in 1649 for being considered a tyrant -
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Intermediate Baroque
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Newton's discoveries
Newton discovers gravity in 1678. Together with Leibnitz they invent calculus: the mathematical study of movement. -
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Late Baroque
-Harmony merges with polyphony
-Instrumental music highlights
-Italian composers and musicians extend instrumental music -
Johann Sebastian Bach
“Toccata y fuga en Re menor"
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Antonio Vivaldi
"Primavera"
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CLASSICAL PERIOD
- Accompanied melody.
- Symmetric phrases.
- Clear harmony.
- Major mode
- Orchestra expansion.
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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer. He is one of the top representatives of the classical period, besides being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his important contributions to both genres. -
George Frederick Händel
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Mozart
Mozart was a composer and pianist of the former Archbishop of Salzburg, considered one of the most influential and prominent musicians in history. -
Johann Friedrich Fasch
His main works include cantatas, concerts for different instruments, such as his trumpet concert, two oboes and continuous bass in D major, symphonies and chamber music. None of his works were published during his life. Much of his vocal work, including four operas, has been lost. -
Events
- The home office of homeless assistance is created
- Forbidden give alms to beggars
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Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a composer, conductor and German pianist. His musical legacy covers, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism -
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist from the age of twenty-five in Spain, where he developed most of his career as a composer. -
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was a composer, orchestra conductor and German romantic music pianist, and brother of the also pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn -
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt fue un compositor y pianista húngaro. Empezó su carrera a los nueve años tocando para magnates en un mundo todavía cortesano, y la culminó como ejemplo del artista romántico, independiente y aristocrático de una época burguesa y capitalista.