Timeline 1: Medieval & Renaissance

By Nat.DH
  • 476

    The Fall of Rome

    The start of the Medieval Era
    Slow changes in life, culture, and dissemination of knowledge
  • Period: 476 to 1435

    The Middle Ages

    The views of music: Divine (Music came from God) and Cosmic (music was created by the movements of the stars and planets
  • Period: 476 to 1450

    Medieval Period

    "Dark Age",
  • Period: 715 to 731

    Pope Gregory

  • 800

    Polyphony and Notation began to emerge

  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Early Polyphony

  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Romanesque Era

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido d'Arezzo

    -Diastematic Notation
    -Credited with inventing the staff
  • 1000

    Music staff invented

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    First Crusade

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildgard Von Bingen

    -Founder and abess of the convent at Reperburgs, Germany
    - Famous for her prophetic power and revelations
    -Wrote liturgical dramas and religious poetry
  • Period: 1150 to 1450

    Gothic Period

  • Period: 1150 to 1201

    Leonin

  • Period: 1155 to 1207

    Raimbout de Vaqueiras

  • Period: 1160 to 1230

    Perotin

  • 1290

    The Medieval Motet

  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Philippe de Virty

    -The first composer in Ars Nova (France)
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

    Most famous composer and poet of that time
  • Period: 1320 to 1400

    Motet Rhythm became complex

  • 1322

    Treatise Ars Nova notandi the new art of note

  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

    -Music Theorist, composer, and poet
    -Most famous Italin composer of the 14th Century
  • Period: 1347 to 1352

    The Bubonic Plauge

    Known as the "Black Death"
  • Period: 1386 to 1466

    Donatello

    -Famous Italian Artist
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

    -English but wrote musical style Europe
  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Dufay

    -First Renaissance Composer
  • Period: 1420 to 1497

    Johannes Ockghem

    -Very respected and prolific
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance Rebirth

    Captured the Arts, Science and Religion
  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

    -Composer and Music Theorist
  • Period: 1444 to 1510

    Sandro Botticelli

  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin des Perez

    -Most revered Renaissance Composer
  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Heinrich Isaac

    -Prorific German Composer
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    -Italian Polymath
  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Period: 1466 to 1536

    Erasmus

  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Mycheangelo

  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Michelangelo

    -Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
  • Period: 1483 to 1520

    Raphael

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

    German Religious reformer
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Adrian Willaert

    -Father of text expression
  • Period: 1500 to 1539

    Frottola

  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Tallis

    -Important English Composer
  • Period: 1507 to 1568

    Jacques Arcadelt

    One of the earliest Italian Madrigal Composers
  • 1517

    Protastent Reformation

  • Period: 1521 to

    Phillip de Mente

    -Most prolific composer of the Renaissance
  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

    -The most famous composer of the Renaissance
  • 1530

    Italian Madrigal

  • Period: 1530 to

    Madrigals

  • Period: 1532 to

    Orlando de Lasso

  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

    -Important Catholic English Composer
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    The Cauncil of Trent

  • Period: 1548 to

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    -Carries on Palestrinas style while working in Spain
  • Period: 1557 to

    Giovanni Gabrielli

    -Leading composer of intrumental ensemble music
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespear

    -Famous English playwright
    -Helived into the esarly Baroque but many Renaissance Style songs were composers
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo

    -Famous Scientist
  • Period: 1570 to

    John Farmer

    -English composer, organist