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  • Period: 500 to 1500

    medieval timeline

  • Period: 800 to 814

    charlemagne's rule

    charlemagne ruled the HRE from 800-814 he encouraged music in the church during his time as emporer in order to gain favor with the church which gave him power during that time
  • Period: 802 to

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

  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    it set up a system of rules for polphony,
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's monologus

    Guido of arrezo's monologus created a way of notation that is the origin for what we use today.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1220 to 1350

    troubadours/trobairitz

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    it was an innovation in rhythmic notation
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    this took out the rhythmic modes
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    fransesco landini

  • 1450

    Gutenberg printing press

    CA. 1450-1454
  • Period: 1450 to

    renaissance period

  • 1515

    Josquin's Missa Pangue Lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    founded in the court ferrara Italy

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    written By Giovanni Gabrieli likely to be played in St. marks cathedral in Venice. it was also significant because it was the first piece of music written with specification as to what instruments are being used
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    Baroque period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First public concerts in england

    Public concerts started around the 1670's in England and spread to france in the 18th century.
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    J.S. Bach

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    George Frederic Handel

  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    published in 1711 in amsterdam

  • Brandenburg concertos

    submitted in 1721 but likely written in the years leading up to it

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    (treatise on Harmony)

  • The Well Tempered Clavier

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    classic period

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    pre classical period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

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    WA Mozart

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    Viennese Classical period

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    beethoven

  • Period: to

    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

    Schubert

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    Hector Berlioz

  • Period: to

    Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

  • Beethoven's symphony no. 5 in C minor

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    Felix Mendolssohn-Bartholdy

  • Period: to

    Schumann

  • ErlKonig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Symphony No. 8 "unfinished"

  • Beethoven's 9th symphony

  • Symphony Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Carnaval

  • Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Treatise on Instrumentation By Berlioz

  • Violin Concerto in e minor

  • Verdi 's La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Maple Leaf Rag

    Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

    Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

    performed in a prison camp

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1 (publication date)

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune

    Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune (premiere)

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine