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Period: 400 to 1400
Medieval Period
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800
Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor 800-814
Charlemagne took great interest in church music and caused it to flourish in his time. He appreciated why the music was attached to the worship and laid the groundwork for musical culture in the region. -
900
Musica Enchiriadis 900
This describes the first surviving attempt for rules for polyphony. This mostly described how voices should move together. -
1000
Medieval Troubadours 1000 to 1200
One school of poets that invented a kind of lyrical poetry that contained intricate meter and rhyme with a romantic strain. -
1025
Guido of Arezzo Microgulus
Guido of Arezzo is credited as the inventor of modern musical notation. His text Micrologus was the second most widely distributed text on the matter. -
1098
Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179
Hildegard was a medieval mystic who was a major composer for the church actually writing down the works she wrote. -
1160
Notre Dame School of Polyphony 1160-1250
A group of composers working at the Notre Dame Cathedral from about 1160 to 1250. -
1240
Franco of Cologne 1240-1280/ Ars Cantus Mensurabilius
Franco of Cologne was a German music theorist who proposed the idea of note duration being determined by appearance, not by context. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
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Period: 1300 to
Renaissance 1300-1600
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1320
Ars Nova Treatise 1320
A treatise written about new changes in music. This Change was marked by the abandonment of rhythmic modes and increased use of smaller note values. -
1325
Francesco Landini 1325-1397
A major user who helped propel the Trecento syle. -
1453
Gutenberg printing press 1453
Moveable type allowed for music to be spread much easier -
1514
Missa Pangue Lingua
This is known as Josquin Des Prez's final mass. It follows The standard mass setting, but uses the cantus firmus method through the Missa Pangue -
1529
Ein feste burg Martin Luther
Ein feste burg is one of the most popular hymns with Lutherans. Luther paraphrased from the book of Psalms -
1539
Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno
This was the piece that brought Arcadelt to fame as a composer. He moved away from dense polyphony and made his music clearer to hear. -
1562
Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
This mass was freely composed, not following any cantus firmus or parody. According to legend, this mass convinced the catholic church, after the Council of Trent, to not ban polyphony. -
1580
Concerto delle Donne - 1580-1597
This was a group of female musicians who traveled Ferrara, Italy, from 1580 to 1597. -
Period: 1580 to
Baroque Era
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Sonata pian'e forte
This instrumental piece was written Giovanni Gabrieli. this was the first piece of its time to call for specific instruments as well as specific dynamics. The piece was written for the St. Marks Basicilla in 1597 -
L'Orfeo
Written by Monteverdi -
First Public Concert held in England
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Handels Life
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Js Bach
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
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Vivaldi's L'estro Armonico
A set of 12 Concertos for stringed instruments -
Brandenburg Concertos Submitted to Brandenburg
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Rameau's Traitse de l'harmonie
The first publication to standardize the modern theory that we teach today -
The Well Tempered Clavier Volume 1
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Preclassical Period
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Joseph Haydn
Father of the string quartet -
Handel's Messiah
Composed in 1741 -
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WA Mozart
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Viennese Classical Period
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Ludwig van Beethoven( Life-Death)
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges as Director of the Concert des Amateurs
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Haydn Op. 33 String Quartets
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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
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Mozarts Don Giovanni
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Haydn
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Franz Schubert
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Beethoveen Symphony No. 5
Composed between 1804 and 1808
Premiere December 22 1808 -
Schubert Der Erlkonig
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Rosinni's Barber of Seville Premiere
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Paganinni 24 Caprices
Written between 1802 and 1817
First published 1820 -
Schubert Unfinished Symphony
Left with the first two movements, fragments of the third and a sketch of the finale -
Beethoveen 9
Composed between 1822 and 1824
Premiere May 7 1284
Last complete symphony -
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Written and premiered 1830 -
Chopin Mazurkas op 7
Written 1830-1832 -
Schumann Carnival
written 1834-1835 -
Fanny Mendelssohn Das Jahr
Composing began in 1841 -
Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schonheit
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Mendelssohn Volin concerto in E minor
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La Travita- Verdi
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Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation
originally published in 1844, but a chapter was added and it was re published in 1855 -
Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico
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Tristan und Isolde
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Boris Goudunov
27 January 1874 -
Bizets Carmen
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Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Brahms Symphony 4
Premiere Date -
Mahler Symphony No 1
20 November 1889 -
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker
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Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "New Word"
15 December 1893 -
Debussy prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
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Maple Leaf Rag Published
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Jean Sibelius Finlandia
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Madama Butterfly
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Schoenburg Pierrot Lunaire
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Stravinsky Le Sacre Du Printemps
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Schoenburg Piano Suit 25
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Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
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Hotter Than That- Louis Armstrong
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Ellingtons Cottontail
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Bela Bartok Concerto fo Orchestra