MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

  • 476

    Beginning of the middle ages

    Beginning of the middle ages
    It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
  • Period: 476 to 1400

    Profane music

    Any type of music without religious mode.
  • 732

    Battle of Poitiers

    Battle of Poitiers
    The Franks managed to stop the Muslim advance.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Feudalism

    Social, political and economic system...
  • 1100

    Medieval music

    Medieval music
    Medieval music used many stringed instruments, as well as the lute, the Moorish or mandolin guitar, the guiterna, and the psaltery.
  • 1212

    El Studium Generale de Palencia,

    El Studium Generale de Palencia,
    The emergence of general education in Castile was driven by the initiative of the monarch, based on the existence of the cathedral school.
  • Period: 1378 to 1445

    Lorenzo Ghiberti.

    Lorenzo Ghiberti, born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian sculptor, goldsmith, architect and writer of Quattrocento art. He is known above all as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence, called by Michelangelo the Door of Paradise
  • 1453

    Beginning of the Renaissance.

    Beginning of the Renaissance.
    Started with the fall of the Byzantine empire.
  • 1454

    Lived a recovery .

    After the economic crisis and the castastrophes, they experienceda
    recovery.
  • Period: 1479 to 1504

    Reing of the catholic King.

    Catholic King is the name given to the spousses Fernando I1 of Aragon and Isabel I of Castilla.
  • 1492

    End of the middle ages.

    End of the middle ages.
    Fall of the Byzantine Empire and the discovery of America.
  • Period: 1500 to 1520

    Quattrocento

    Characterized by antropocentrism, the rebirth of Antiquity and the
    support of patrons.
  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best known representative of the 16th century Roman School of musical composition.
  • 1527

    University Marburgo

    University Marburgo
    The University of Marburg is a university in Germany, founded by Philip I of Hesse, making it the first and oldest Protestant university in the world. It was the main university of the landgraviate of Hesse and remains a public university of that German state.
  • Period: 1545 to

    Counter- Reformation

    in italy, the meeting of the Council of trent and beginning of the counter - Reformation.
  • 1556

    Philip II and Hegemony

    Is Spain, the accession to the throne of Philip II and the beginning of Spanish hegemony.
  • Period: Nov 25, 1562 to

    Lope de Vega

    Lope de Vega Carpio was one of the most important poets and playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age and, due to the extent of his work, one of the most prolific authors of world literature.
  • Beginning the Baroque period

    Beginning the Baroque period
    Baroque is a European artistic style developed in the 17th century and in the first half of the 18th century. The baroque was born in Italy and was drilled throughout Europe. From Spain and Portugal they also developed to the American colonies.
  • Don Quijote De La Mancha

    Don Quixote de la Mancha is a Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The first part of it was published under the title of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha
  • la Guerra de los Treinta Años

    The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe. In which most of the great European powers of the time took part. This war marked the future of the whole of Europe in the following centuries.
  • El mágico prodigioso

    it is a drama and a fiction de Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Period: to

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer, although his work also had characteristics of early classicism. He is considered the most prolific composer in the history of music. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig
  • Period: to

    cultural movement that originated in Germany and the UK

    Reason (rationalism) seen as the ideal. Began in Germany and spread to England and France as a reaction against Neoclassicism and against the Age of Enlightenment..
  • Basílica de la santa cruz en Lecce

    Basílica de la santa cruz en Lecce
    The Basilica of the Holy Cross is a church located in the historic center of Lecce, Italy, on Via Umberto I. Together with the adjoining Convento dei Celestini, it is the most outstanding example of Lecce Baroque. It has the category of minor basilica.
  • The Four Seasons

    The four seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Period: to

    Strawberry Hill House

    Strawberry Hill House (lit., 'strawberry hill house'), often simply called Strawberry Hill, is an 18th-century English country villa in the Gothic style, which was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717 -1797) from 1749 onwards.
  • End of Baroque period

    End of Baroque period
    The baroque ended with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, in Leipzig.
  • Beginning of the Classical Period

    The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more sophisticated use of form.
  • balance and sobriety

    Classicism is the historiographical denomination of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophical patterns of classical antiquity, which developed simultaneously with the different artistic styles and literary movements of the Modern Age.
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

    Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history.
  • Period: to

    evolución industrial.

    The First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • Period: to

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
  • End of the Renaissance.

    End of the Renaissance.
    Ended with the French revolution.
  • Period: to

    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann was a 19th-century German composer, pianist, and music critic, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. Schumann left his law studies, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.
  • End of the Classical Period

    The classical period conventionally ends at the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the fragmentation of his empire, which was at this time divided among the Diadochi.
  • Beginning of the Romantic period

    Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a revolutionary reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings. It is considered the first cultural movement that covered the map Full of Europe.
  • Period: to

    romantic heyday

    The peak of romantic painting occurs between 1820 and 1850, with a predominance of themes related to modern history, as well as a new conception of the landscape. France was the main scene of this period.
  • Beginning of the 20th Century

    The 20th century was characterized by great social transformations; advances in technology, medicine and science in general, but also by a large number of deaths caused by wars, revolutions, ethnic massacres and state terrorism.
  • End of Romantic period

    Romanticism broke with the ideas of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism and sought to highlight through music, art and literature the emotion that wild spaces, nature and the melancholy that it generates arouse.
  • Period: to

    John Cage

    John Milton Cage Jr., artistically John Cage, was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of random music, electronic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures post-war avant garde.
  • Period: to

    First world war

    World War I, formerly called the Great War, was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
  • Modernism and Atonalism

    The Common Practice era (which used a tonal system based on key centres and standard chord progressions, as well as structures like sonata form) had been in place since the Baroque period, and by the 20th Century there was a feeling that late Romantic composers like Wagner and Richard Strauss had done everything that could be done within this framework.
  • Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

    The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a contemporary art museum designed by Canadian architect Frank O. Gehry and located in the town of Bilbao, Spain. It is one of the museums linked by franchise or collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
  • End of The 20th century

    the 20th century ends and the 21st century begins
    20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously. So this century was without a dominant style.