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476
Beginning of the middle ages
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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. -
732
Battle of Poitiers
The Franks managed to stop the Muslim advance. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Feudalism
Social, political and economic system. -
1100
Medieval music
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1200
Gotic art
Urban art characterized for the construction of big cathedrals. -
1212
The Studium Generale of 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 in 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 -
1492
Kingdom of Granada
Finally in 1492 Queen Isabella I of Castile defeated the last Andalusian kingdom of Granada. -
1492
End of the middle ages
Fall of the Byzantine Empire and the discovery of America.