Final Timeline Project

By TrevorDorsett
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 900 to 1050

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Foundation for modern western musical notation
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1315 to 1375

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Made new art and allowed new rhythm notation possible.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Showed that classical counterpoint and text could be together
  • 1572

    Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    First intrumental piece to use soft and loud dynamics. Also added the Sackbut and Cornetto
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    First concerto that was printed

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Became the basics for teaching functional harmony

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Consist of all 24 keys and demonstrated equal temperament
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    Became one of the finest concertos in Europe
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Period: to

    Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet "Carmen"

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • 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

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Period: to

    rnold 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