Music History

By Jeffrey Dunbar
  • Period: 4 to 1415

    Medieval Period

  • 800

    Musica Enchiriadis

    system of rules for polyphony
  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne as emperor

  • 1025

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Notation
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubadour/trobairitz

  • Period: 1211 to 1311

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • 1250

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    rhythmic system
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    new musical technique
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1450

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pangue Lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1539

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Italy

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    first to designate parts and indicate dynamics
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Period: to

    Handel

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

  • Period: to

    Pre Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Period: to

    Beethoven

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Period: to

    Shcubert

  • Beethovens 5th

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • schubert symphony 8

  • Beethovens 9th

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

  • Verdi 's La traviata

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • livier 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 Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine

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