Middle Ages & Renaissance (476-1435 // 1435-1600)

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  • 476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • Period: 476 to 1435

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 476 to 1435

    Musical Genres

    Secular, Polyphony, Chanson, Plainsong, Art Music
  • Period: 476 to 1435

    Instruments

    Flute, Trumpet, Bagpipe, Recorder, Sackbut, Hautboy, Horns, Oboe, Trombone, Tuba, Tambourine, Cymbals, Drums, Bells, Pipe Organ, Hurdy-gurdy
  • Period: 476 to 1435

    Tonality

    Monophony, slowly adding in polyphony by 14th century
  • Period: 476 to 1435

    Musical Forms

    Sacred and Secular
  • 732

    Charles the Hammer and the Battle of Tours

  • 800

    Charlamagne, Roman Emperor

  • 843

    Treaty of Verdun

  • Period: 995 to 1050

    Guido de Arezzo

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen

  • Period: 1135 to 1201

    Léonin

  • Period: 1160 to 1238

    Pérotin

  • Period: 1210 to 1240

    Moniot d'Arras

  • 1215

    Declaration of the Magna Carta

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1312 to 1317

    The Great Famine

  • 1337

    The Hundred Years’ War

  • Period: 1348 to 1350

    The Black Death

  • Period: 1400 to 1460

    Gilles Binchois

  • Period: 1435 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1435 to

    Muiscal Genres

    Secular, Madrigal, Early Music, Baroque, A cappella, Chanson
  • Period: 1435 to

    Instruments

    Trumpet, Cornett, Lyre, Lute, Viol, Hurdy-gurdy, Jew’s Harp, Shawm, Panpipe, Transverse Flute
  • Period: 1435 to

    Tonality

    Strictly polyphony, and fuller sounds than medieval music
  • Period: 1435 to

    Musical Forms

    German Lied, Italian frottola, the French chanson, the Italian madrigal, and the Spanish villancico
  • Period: 1440 to 1521

    Josquin Des Prez

  • 1454

    Gutenberg Bible

  • Period: 1460 to 1518

    Pierre de La Rue

  • 1492

    Columbus Reached the Bahamas

  • 1504

    Michelangelo Finish “David”

  • Period: 1510 to

    Thomas Tallis

  • 1513

    Machiavelli Published “The Prince”

  • Period: 1526 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

  • 1555

    The Peace of Augsburg

  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

  • 1570

    First Modern Atlas was Published