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.
  • 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

  • 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
  • 1453

    Beginning of Renaissance

  • 1454

    Lived a recovery

    After the economic crisis and the catastrophes, they experience recovery
  • Period: 1479 to 1504

    Reing of the catholic King

    Catholic King is the name given to the spousses Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel of Castilla
  • 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.
  • Period: 1500 to 1520

    Quattrocento

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

    Giovanni Pierluigi de Parlestrina

    Giovanni Pierluigi de Parlestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best known representative of the 16th century
  • 1527

    Univeristy Marbugo

    The University of Manburgo is a university in Germany. Founded by Philip I of Hesse, making it the first and oldest Protestant university.
  • Beginning of the Baroque period

    Pessimistic view of life and the importance of feelings
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha

    Miguel Cervantes began to write Don Quijote in one of his prisions periods
  • El mágico prodigioso

    It's 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

    Cultural movement that originated in Germany and in 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
  • The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchesta 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
  • Balance and sobriety

    Classicism is the historiographical denomination of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophycal
  • 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
  • End of the Baroque

    Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozar, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism
  • Period: to

    Industrial evolution

    the first industrial revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th
  • 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 beggining of Romanticism
  • End of Renaissance

    Ended with the French revolution
  • Period: to

    Robert Schumann

    He was a 19th century German composer, pianist and music critic, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism.
  • Begining of the Romantic period

    Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in German 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.
  • End of the Classical period

    The classical period conventionally ends at the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the fragmentation of his empire.
  • Period: to

    Romantic heyday

    The peak of romantic paintings occurs between 1820 to 1850 with a predominance of themes related to modern history, as well as a new
    conception of the landscape
  • Beginning of the 20th period

    Describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000
  • End of Romantic period

    Romanticism broke with the ideas of Enlightenment and Neoclassicism and sought to highlight through music.
  • Period: to

    John Cage

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

    First world war

    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 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.