Music timeline

By Willy
  • Instrumental music
    549

    Instrumental music

    The Catholic church only allowed the organ liturgy and no other instruments.
    Most instruments were only used in secular music.
    Nobody wrote these compositions down, so we don´t have a faithfull record of what they were like
  • Gregorian chant
    Jan 9, 600

    Gregorian chant

    Between 7th and 9th, the roman Catholic church compiled its litusgical songs.We call this musical repertory: GREGORIAN CHANT
  • Secular vocal music
    Jul 24, 849

    Secular vocal music

    Secualr monophony appeared in around teh 9th century, but it was generally passed on orally, there are hardly records of it.
    Who played secular music was called minstrels.
    The songs of the minstrels were written in songbooks
  • Liturgical poliphony
    Oct 8, 864

    Liturgical poliphony

    A second voice was aded to plainsong and polyphony was born.
    This new form of musical expression become more and more complex and reache it maximum level of sophistication and perfection in the 16th century
  • Guido d´Arezzo
    Dec 4, 1023

    Guido d´Arezzo

    (992-1050)
    Was a teacher in the cathedral school of Arezzo.
    He created the four-line stave and gave the notes the names that we still use today
  • Martin Luther
    Feb 8, 1483

    Martin Luther

    Was a german monge, that started the protestant reformation o his country. He was alsoa composer and a flautist. He created a repertoire of simple melodies in vernacular.
  • Renaisse music
    Oct 4, 1491

    Renaisse music

    Was an influetian cultural movement. Belife humans were the cnter of interest. The reinasse also favoured the use of reasoning and not faith.
    Was created during de 15th-17th centuries
    Musician couldn´t use compositions from antiquity, because there wern´t any records of them.
  • Dance teachers
    Feb 24, 1548

    Dance teachers

    Apperar during the renaisse.
    Thet taught members of the court to dance , and they wrote manualsabout fashionable dances.
  • Tomas Luis de Victoria
    Aug 12, 1548

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    Was a spanish composer. 1587 Victoria became a master to the empress Maria de Austria De Madrid. He later worked as an organist at the convent of las descalzas reales.
  • John Downland
    Aug 9, 1563

    John Downland

    Was an english composer and lutenist. YHe was one of the first composer to usemelody-dominated homophony and he´s famous forhis expresive songs for voice and lute
  • Francesca Caccini

    Francesca Caccini

    Was born in Florence,wrote 5 operas. It`s known because she was the first woman who wrote a opera
  • Barroque music period

    Barroque music period

    Started with the appererance od opera, it´s one of the most importants music periods for orchestra
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Was a composer and priest from Venice. His most known and important composition is "the four seasons"
  • Alberti Bass

    Alberti Bass

    A type of accompaniment created by Domenico Alberi start to be used.
  • Important instruments created in the classical period

    Important instruments created in the classical period

    Piano-1700: Invented by Bartolomeo cristofori in Italy
    French Horn
    Clarinet-18th century
  • Start of the classical period

    Start of the classical period

    The classical period of European music startedin 1730 between the early/late modern period
  • Opera buffa

    Opera buffa

    Originated in Naples at the start of the 18th century
  • End of the Baroque period

    End of the Baroque period

    Ende with the death of Johan Sebastian Bach
  • Wolfang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfang Amadeus Mozart

    An important composer of the clasical period
  • Beethoven

    Beethoven

    An important composer in the classical period
  • Franz Joseph

    Franz Joseph

    An important composer of the classical period
  • French revolution

    French revolution

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Frédéric Chopin

    Was a polish composer and pianist. He started his professional career as a pianist in 1892. Most of his works c onsist in short pieces for piano
  • Clara Schumann

    Clara Schumann

    Was a hugley talented German pianist, teacher and composer. His greatest achieve was to help his husband Robert Schumann
  • End of the classical period

    End of the classical period

    Thre classical period of WEuropean music ended in 1820
  • Symphonie Fantantastique

    Symphonie Fantantastique

    Hector Berlioz created. This is an important point in the Romantic period music because this Symphonia was the prototype of the Programme symphony
  • Romantic ballet

    Romantic ballet

    The romantic balley was marked by the first Paris prformance of La Sylphide
  • Ballet

    Ballet

    The start of Romantic ballet was amrked by the first Paris performance of "La Sylphide"
  • New musical instruments

    New musical instruments

    Durind this century, a lot of new musical instruments were created some of them are:
    -The bass clarinet
    - The contrabassoon
    -The english horn
    -The saxophone
    -The trombone
    -The tuba
    -And a lot more
  • Zarzuela

    Zarzuela

    Even thought it was created in the 17th century, some of it best works were composed in the 19th century
  • Important musicians of the 20th century

    Important musicians of the 20th century

    Erik Saire: Was a frech composerr and pianist. He learnt to play the organ
    Sofia Gubaidulina: Was born in the republic of Tartastan in Russia. She studied piano for composition in Kazan
  • Verismo

    Verismo

    Gianno Puccini created a new musical movement called Verismo
  • New musical instruments of the 20th century

    New musical instruments of the 20th century

    During the 20yh century a lot of new musical instruments were introduced:
    -Theremin
    -Ondes Martenot
    -Synthesister
    -Sampler
    -Vibraphone
  • musique concréte

    musique concréte

    Composer used sounds of their surrondings and modifieds them with the latest technology
  • Electronic and electroacoustic music

    Electronic and electroacoustic music

    Was produced entirely in a recording studio, using only sounds generated electronically
  • Neoclassicism

    Neoclassicism

    Appeared afte rthe second world war.
    Aimed to the retourn of classical aesthetics
  • Aleatoric music

    Aleatoric music

    Appeared as a reaction to the rigid rules of the twelve-tone technique
  • Minimal music

    Minimal music

    Aimed to create simpkle, dirct music with minimal resources
  • Impressionism

    Impressionism

    Apeared at the end of the 19th century.
    Focussed on evoking atmospheres
  • Expressionism

    Expressionism

    Created at the end of the 19th century
    Aimed for express inner conflicts, fears and irrational impulses