Midterm Timeline Project

By stankiklica
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
    1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus means "Little Treatise". It is a text that highlights singing and teaching Gregorian chant, as well as how it is notated.
  • Hildegard of Bingen
    1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    1098-1179
    -Poet, writings of science and healing
    -Set poetry to original chant melodies
    -Claimed work was inspired through visions
    Musical Characteristics
    -syllabic, melismatic
    -Range of more than an octave
    -Music centered around the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, and local saints
  • Ars Nova Treatise
    1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Replaces Ars Antiqua (old art), defines time and rhythm.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena Motet
    1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria... virgo serena Motet

    Often called the "Mona Lisa" of Renaissance music, Ave Maria is one of Josquin's earliest and most popular motets. A motet is a polyphonic setting of a sacred Latin text other than the Mass ordinary.
  • Martin Luther's Chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God)"
    1529

    Martin Luther's Chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God)"

    This is Martin Luther's most famous chorale. This later became an anthem for the Reformation.
  • Arcadeit Madrigal- "Il bianco e dolce cigno"
    1538

    Arcadeit Madrigal- "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

    This madrigal utilizes a four voice chordal texture, as well as imitation. It is full of innuendos, such as "If in dying, were I to feel no other pain, I would be content to die a thousand deaths a day."
  • Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus" Mass
    1567

    Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus" Mass

    The Pope Marcellus mass exemplifies Palestrina's Style, and it became a model for subsequent generations. It is considered to be the ultimate ideal example of counterpoint.
  • Victoria's "Missa O Magnun Mysterium"
    1572

    Victoria's "Missa O Magnun Mysterium"

    This Mass is one of Victoria's Parody masses, and features both changing time signatures and vocal texture.
  • Gabrieli's "Sonata pian'e forte"

    Gabrieli's "Sonata pian'e forte"

    Composed by Italian composer and organist, this piece is one of the earliest known pieces to specify loud and soft passages in print.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • L'Orfeo by Claude Monteverdi

  • First Public Concerts in England

    “This is to give notice, that at Mr. John Bannister’s House,...this
    present Monday, will be music performed by excellent masters,
    beginning precisely at 4 of the clock in the afternoon, and every
    afternoon for the future, precisely at the same hour.” London
    Gazette, Dec. 1672

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    1685-1750

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    Vivaldi's first collection of concertos to appear in print.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Codified practices of his contemporaries, especially
    Corelli.
    Most influential of all Theoretical Works.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    24 Preludes and Fugues
    Equal Temperament

  • Franz Joseph Haydn

    1732-1809

  • Handel's Messiah

    Premiered in Dublin, 1742 during Lent

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    1756-1791
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

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

    Music Director of Concert des
    Amateurs (1773-1781)
    One of the finest orchestras in
    Europe
    “Le Mozart noir”
    Virtuoso Violinist and composer
    12 violin concertos
    18 string quartets
    10 Symphonie Concertante
    One of France’s best composers,
    conductors, and violinists
    Master Swordsman
    US President John Adams called him
    “the most accomplished man in
    Europe”.

  • 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"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkonig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op. 1

    Caprice – humorous, capricious work characterized by a
    departure from current stylist norm
    Dedicated to ‘alli Artisti’ (professional musicians)
    Deemed ”unplayable” by many
    Caprice no.24 - theme and variations (theme served as basis
    for variations by other composers such as Brahms, Liszt and
    Rachmaninoff)

  • Frederic Chopin's Mazurkas, Op. 7

    1825-1849

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Fanny Mendelssohn - Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk "Souvenir de Porto Rico"

    1857-1858

  • Musorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

  • Bizet's "Carmen"

  • Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen"

  • Brahms' "Symphony No. 4"

  • Mahler's "Symphony No.1"

  • Dvorak's "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

  • Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 Premiere

  • Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky Soundtrack

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine

  • Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland's Appalachian Spring

  • Cage's 4'33"

  • Varese's Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine