Main Historical Facts

  • 476

    Beginning of the middle ages

  • Period: 476 to 1450

    Profane music

    Any type of music without religious mode.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Polyphone music

    During the medieval period or the Middle Ages, is when musical notation began as well as the birth of polyphony when multiples sounds came together and formed separate melody and harmony lines.
  • Battle of poitiers
    732

    Battle of poitiers

    The frank managed to stop the muslim advance.
  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Feudalism

    Social, political and economic system.
  • 1100

    Medieval music

  • Gotic art
    1200

    Gotic art

    Urban art characterized for the construction of big cathedral.
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti
    1378

    Lorenzo Ghiberti

    Lorenzo Ghiberti, was an italian sculptor, architect and writer of Quattrocento art. He is know all as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence.
  • Beginning of the Renaissance
    1453

    Beginning of the Renaissance

    Started with fall of the Byzantine empire.
  • 1454

    Lived a recovery

    After the economic crisis and the catastrophes, they experience recovery.
  • 1479

    Reign of the catholic king

    Catholic king is the name given to the spouses Fernando I of Aragon and Isabel I of Castilla.
  • End of the middle ages
    1492

    End of the middle ages

    Fall of the Byzantine Empire and the discovery of America.
  • Quattrocento
    1500

    Quattrocento

    Characterized by anthropocentrism, the rebirth of Antiquity and the support of patrons.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
    1525

    Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina

    Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina was an italin renaissance composer of sacred music and the best know representative of the 16th century.
  • University Marburg
    1527

    University Marburg

    The university of Marburg it´s in Germany, founded by Philip I of Hesse, making it the first and oldest Protestant university.
  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

    He was the most famous english composer of the years of the Tudor era and the first Stuart era. It belonged to the Late Renaissance.
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Counter-Reformation

    In Italy, the meeting of the Council of Trent and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation.
  • Philip II and Hegemony
    1556

    Philip II and Hegemony

    in Spain, the accession to the throne of Philip II and the beginning of spanish hegemony.
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha

    Don Quijote de la Mancha

    Miguel de Cervantes began to write Don Quijote in one of his prison periods.
  • Beginning the Baroque period

    Baroque is a European artistic style developed in the 17th century and in the first half os 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.
  • El Mágico Prodigioso

    El mágico prodigioso is a drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a german composer, organist. harpsichordist, conductor, violinist, singer and teacher of the Baroque.
  • Period: to

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Gluck, was a german composer.
  • The four seasons

    The four seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Beginning of the Classical period

    Beginning of the Classical period

    It was called the "Century of Light".
  • Period: to

    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the neoclassical style.
  • Period: to

    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 Walpope (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.
  • End of the Baroque

    Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • Orfeo and Eurydice

    Orfeo and Eurydice

    Is an opera in 3 acts by the German composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
  • Independence of the United States of America.

    Independence of the United States of America.

    The congressmen, representatives of the 13 colonies, proclaimed.
  • End of Renaissance

    End of Renaissance

    Ended with the French Revolution.
  • Period: to

    Zarzuela

    A lirical and theatrical music ut zarzuela apperared in XVII.
  • Period: to

    Jenaro Pérez Villaaamil

    Romanticist painter, specializing in landscapes.
  • Period: to

    Robert Schumann

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

    Ended between the early Modern period and the late Modern period.
  • 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's considered the fiesta. cultural movement that covered the map Full of Europe.
  • Isabel II

    Isabel II

    She was born the 10 of October of 1830. She was a spanish queen, daugther of Fernando III.
  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

    Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

    The birth of the spanish poet G.A. Bécquer.
  • Period: to

    First Spanish Republic

    Political regime in Spain.
  • Danse Macabre

    Danse Macabre

    It's a symphonic poem composed by Camille Saint Saems.
  • Beginning of the 20th Century

    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.
  • End of the 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, 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 II, 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 Atonaly

    The common Practice era (which used a tonal system based on key centres and standard chord progressions, as well as structures like sonata form) has 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.