Music 27

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  • Earliest surviving notation in the western tradition
    850

    Earliest surviving notation in the western tradition

  • 1000

    Earliest western musical notation to designate specific pitches using a staff line

  • "Can vei la lauzeta" and "Reis glorios"
    1170

    "Can vei la lauzeta" and "Reis glorios"

    date approximate
  • Beginnings of rhythmic notationo
    1175

    Beginnings of rhythmic notationo

    Known as "modal notation," it used patterns of note types to designate rhythmic patterns
  • Dowland, "Flow my tears"

    Dowland, "Flow my tears"

    Published in his collection "The Second Booke of Songs"
  • Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending, published

    Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending, published

    Publication in the collection "Triumphs of Oriana"
  • Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

    Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

  • Handel, Israel in Egypt premiere

    Handel, Israel in Egypt premiere

  • Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Langugaes

    Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Langugaes

    Approximate date of writing; published only in 1781
  • Goethe, "Erlkönig"

    Goethe, "Erlkönig"

    Poem, as part of the Singspiel Die Fischerin
  • Death of Mozart; requiem left unfinished

    Death of Mozart; requiem left unfinished

  • Schubert, Erlkönig

    Schubert, Erlkönig

    Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem published
  • Edison applies for patent for phonograph

    Edison applies for patent for phonograph

  • Berliner receives patent for gramophone

    Berliner receives patent for gramophone

    plays discs rather than cylinders
  • Brussels World Expo and Varèse's Poème électronique

    Brussels World Expo and Varèse's Poème électronique

  • Nine inch nails, "Hurt"

    Nine inch nails, "Hurt"

    Released as the last song on the album "The Downward Spiral"
  • Johnny Cash, "Hurt"

    Johnny Cash, "Hurt"

  • Release of Nathalie Joachim's Fanm d'Ayiti

    Release of Nathalie Joachim's Fanm d'Ayiti

  • First day of Music 27