History of Music Timeline Project

By dchast13
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    The innovation of this piece was the introduction of the hexachord system.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The innovation of Ars Nova was the introduction of the modern notation system.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress...)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal II bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Palestrina used this piece to demonstrate that sacred music could still be intelligible with 6 voices.
  • 1568

    Gabrieli Sonata pian'e forte

    This was the first piece to use varying levels of dynamics and also indicate which instruments should play each line.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    This collection of works from Vivaldi established the concerto form that we are familiar with today. It was also described as "perhaps the most influential collection of instrumental music to appear during the whole of the eighteenth century" by Vivaldi scholar, Michael Talbot.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    The Treatise on Harmony codified the practices of his contemporaries, especially Corelli. It established 5 practices that we still use today, including a defined root in a chord, fundamental basslines, and terms such as tonic/dominant/subdominant.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    This collection of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys introduced equal temperament, which is the primary method of tuning that we use today.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    Under his direction, the Concerts des Amatuers became one of the most renowned orchestras in Europe.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkonig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op. 1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Fanny Menhelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Boxer’s Carmen

  • Wagoner’s Der Ring de Nibelungen

  • Brahm’s Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1

  • Dvorak’s New World Symphony

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles" from Preludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schonberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Arnold Schonberg's Piano Suire, Op. 25

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 premier

  • Prokokiev Alexander Nevsky

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalaichian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine