Music History Timeline

By ryleegraceb
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Established Hexachord system
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen birth

  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen death

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Establishes time and prolation
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

    Demonstrated that sacred words could be intelligible in polyphony

  • Victoria's Missa O Magnum Mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata Pian e Forte

    for St. Mark's Basilica
    First to use dynamics and first to establish which musical instrument was performing each part
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonica

    Published by Entienne Roger in Amsterdam

  • Rameau's Traite De L'Harmonie

    Became basis for teaching functional harmony

  • Bach's Well Tempered Clavier

    Was played in equal temperament
  • Period: to

    Haydn Lifespan

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart Lifespan

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    He was a (uncommon) black director of "one of the finest orchestras in Europe"

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Surprise Symphony Premiere's in London

  • Paganini's 24 Caprices for Violin Op.1

  • Beethoven symphony no.5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkonig

  • Period: to

    Chopin Mazurka Compositions

  • Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel "Das Jahr"

  • Gottschalk "Souvenir de Porto Rico"

  • Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

  • Bizet "Carmen" premier

  • Wagner's "Der Ring Der Nibelungen"

  • Brahms Symphony no.4

  • Mahler Symphony no.1

  • Dvorak Symphony no.9 "From the New World"

  • Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"

  • Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Debussy's "Voiles"

  • Schonberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"

  • Stravinsky's "Le sacre du Printemps"

  • Schonberg's Piano Suite, Op. 25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I got rhythm"

  • Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 premier

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky premier

  • Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"

  • Messiaen "Quatuor pour le fine du temps"

  • Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage "4'33''"

  • Varese "Poems Electronique"

  • Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

  • George Crumb "Ancient Voices of Children"

  • John Adams "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"