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1450 BCE
Medieval Period
c.500-1450 CE -
1030
Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
Date: c.1030
Innovation: -
1098
Hildegard of Bingen
Birth: 1098
Death: 1179 -
1323
Ars Nova Treatise
c.1323
Importance: The Creation of Music Notation -
1485
Josquin’s Motet: Ave Maria ... virgo serena
Date: ca.1485 -
1529
Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress..)
Date: 1529 -
1538
Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno
Date: 1538 -
1567
Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
Published Date: 1567
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Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium
1592 -
Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte
Date: 1597
Where: Venice, Italy
Two Fold Importance: Cornetto and Sackbut -
Baroque
1600-1750 -
Renaissance Period
Date Range: 1450-1600 -
Monteverdi's L’Orfeo
Date: February 25, 1607, Mantua, Italy -
First Public Concerts in England
1637 First Public
Opera House
Venice -
JS Bach
1685-1750 -
Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico
Published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam 1711
Significance: Harmonic Inspiration -
Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
Date: 1720 -
Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
published: 1722
significance: Treatise on Harmony -
Franz Joseph Haydn
1732-1809 -
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs
Date:1773-1781
Significance: Music Director of Concert des
Amateurs -
Handel's Messiah
Completed 1741
Premiered in Dublin, 1742 during Lent -
WA Mozart
1756-1791 -
Viennese Classical Period
Viennese Classical 1770-1800 -
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Based on legend of Don Juan
Subtitled “The Dissolute Man Punished”
Dramma giocoso
Set in Seville, Spain
Sung in Italian -
Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"
March 23, 1792 -
Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor
Premiere Date 1807-1808 -
Schubert Erlkönig
Composition Date: 1815 -
Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1
Composed 1805
Published 1820 -
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Composition Date: 1830 -
Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7
Composition Date Range: 1831 -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr
Composition Date: 1841 -
Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico
Composition Date: 1857-58 -
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Original piano version -
Bizet Carmen
(premiere date) -
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
Complete Cycle -
Brahams' Symphony No.4
Premiere -
Mahler Symphony No.1
Premiere -
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
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Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia
(premiere) -
Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1
composed -
Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire
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Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps
(premiere) -
Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"
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George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"
(published) -
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
premiere -
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
(film) -
Duke Ellington's Cottontail
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Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps
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Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
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Copland Appalachian Spring
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John Cage's 4’33’’
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Edward Varese Poeme Electronique
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Miles Davis Kind of Blue
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George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children
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John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine