History II Timeline

By Jdelval3
  • 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
    Significance: Example of importance to the Christian church's influenced the creation of music.

  • 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"

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

    (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

    (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

    composed

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

    (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

    (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5

    premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

    (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • 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 Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine