Music History

By charliedaugherty
  • Period: 1310 to 1370

    Ars Nova

    Ars Nova treatise - ca. 1320
    Duple rhythm, Mensuration Signs
    Imperfect Consonances
    Isorhythmic motets
    French Chansons (treble dominate style, featuring a leading cantus and supporting tenor)
    Formes Fixes (text and music have patterns of repetition including a refrain)
    -Ballade: Serious, Philosophical, Historical Themes
    -Rondeau: Themes of Love
    -Virelai: Related Love to Natural Descriptions
  • Period: 1323 to 1340

    Machaut

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable - English - Renaissance

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Du Fay - Franco Flemish - Renaissance

  • 1417

    End of schism

  • Period: 1420 to 1497

    Ockeghem - Franco Flemish - Renaissance

  • 1450

    Gutenberg's printing press

  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin de Prez - Franco Flemish GOAT - Renaissance

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther - German - Renaissance

  • 1517

    Reformation

  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina - Italian - Renaissance

  • 1550

    English Lute Songs

  • Period: 1563 to

    John Dowland - English - Renaissance

  • Counter Reformation

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