Music History Timeline

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Micrologus

    Written by Guido of Arezzo, it established solmization for sight-singing, using hexachords and a four-line staff.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Written in the early 1320s by Philippe de Vitry, the Ars Nova brought about more common usage of duple meter.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1485

    Ave Maria...virgo serena

    Written by Josquin Desprez
  • 1529

    Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

    Written by Martin Luther
  • 1538

    Il bianco e dolce signo

    Written by Jacques Arcadelt
  • 1567

    Pope Marcellus Mass

    Written by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, this work proved that sacred music could be intelligible within six-voice polyphony.

  • Missa O Magnum Mysterium

    Written by Tomas Luis de Victoria

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    Written by Giovanni Gabrieli to be performed in St. Mark's Basilica, this piece was one of the first to have both loud and soft passages, as well as specific instrumentation.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • L'Orfeo

    Written by Claudio Monteverdi

  • First Public Concert in Engand

  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • L'estro Armonico

    written by Antonio Vivaldi, helped establish the concerto.

  • Well-Tempered Klavier

    written by J.S. Bach in 1722, advocating for equal temperament

  • Traité de l’harmonie

    published by Jean-Philippe Rameau, earning his recognition.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Messiah

    Written by George Frederic Handel
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical era

  • Period: to

    Concert des Amateurs directed by le Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Became one of Europe's finest orchestras.

  • Don Giovanni

    written by W. A. Mozart

  • Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" Premiere

    written by Franz Joseph Haydn the previous year

  • Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5

  • Schubert's "Erlkönig"

  • Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices

    published
  • Period: to

    Chopin's Mazurkas

  • Berlioz' "Symphony fantastique"

  • Mendelssohn-Hensel's "Das Jahr"

  • Gottschalk's "Souvenir de Porto Rico"

  • Mussorgsky'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

  • Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"

  • Sibelius' "Finlandia"

  • Debussy's "Voiles" from "Preludes", book 1

  • Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"

  • Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printempts"

  • Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op. 25

  • Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • The Gershwins' "I got Rhythm"

  • Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5

  • Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky"

  • Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"

  • Messiaen's "Quatuor pour le fine du temps"

  • Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland's "Appalachian Spring"

  • Cage's "4'33""

  • Varese's "Poeme Electronique"

  • Davis' "King of Blue"

  • Crumb's "Black Angels"

  • Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"