music history timeline

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  • Period: 497 to 1492

    medieval period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne reign as emperor

    loved and admired sacred music and was instrumental in the growth of church music
  • 900

    Musica enchiriadis

    First attempt to set up rules for polyphony in music
  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    modern musical notation
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    life of Hildegard of bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    troubadour activity

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame school of polyphony

    a term describing teachers teaching polyphony at that time
  • 1250

    Franco cologne Ars cantus mesurabilis

    First text to suggest notes have individual value and length independent of context
  • Period: 1300 to Apr 13, 1377

    Guilame de Machaut

  • 1320

    Ars nova treatise

    Treatise written by Philippe Vitry on the innovations of rhythmic notation in music
  • Period: 1335 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to

    The Renaissance

  • 1515

    Gutenberg printing press

  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

    Cantus firmus mass
  • 1528

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

    battle hymn of the reformation
  • 1538

    Arcadelt IL Bianco e dolce cigno

    Italian madrigal for 4 voices
  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    polyphonic choral music
  • Period: 1580 to

    concerto delle donne

    group of professional female singers in the court of Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian'e forte by Gabrielli

    earliest known piece to call for specific brass instruments. Played in St. Marks cathedral in Venice. Extreme use of imitation in brass parts
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    Baroque period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo performance

  • first public performances in England

  • Purcell Dido and Aeneas first performance

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    George Frederic Handel

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    J.S Bach

  • Vivaldis L'estro armonico

  • Bach Brandenburg concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

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    pre classical period

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    franz joseph haydn

  • Handel Messiah first performance

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    Viennese classical period

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    Wolfgang amadeus mozart

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    Ludwig van Beethoven

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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Period: to

    Franz Schubert

  • Period: to

    Beethoven Symphony No.5 in c minor

  • Franz Schubert Erlkonig

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1

  • Franz Schubert Symphony No.8 unfinished

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    Beethoven Symphony No.9

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    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Das Jahr

  • Berlioz Treatise on instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico