Music History

By art1216
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne

    Brought music to the church about 500-600 tunes
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Describes motions within music ie oblique and contrary
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Little treatise
    Solmization (Solfege)
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • Period: 1163 to 1190

    Notre Dame School Polyphony (Leonin)

  • Period: 1190 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony (Perotin)

  • Period: 1215 to 1270

    Franco of Cologne/ Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Changed musical notation in terms of duration
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Time, Prolation
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Fancesco Landini