Music History

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

    Medieval Period, or Middle Ages, in regards to music.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    A treatise that outlined Guido's teachings of sight-singing. These include relative pitch and solmization, a set of syllables to aid in remembering the patterns of whole tones and semitones (ut, re, mi, fa, so, la). Included in the treatise is the idea of four-line staves and notations of flats and naturals.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Born into nobility but promised to the church, Hildegard of Bingen was known for her divine prophesies, poetry, and chant melodies.
  • 1323

    Ars nova Treatise

    Attributed to Philippe de Vitry, the term Ars nova is used to represent the style of music during his lifetime. Replacing Ars antiqua, this treatise outlined the style and innovations during the first half of the 14th cent. with a focus on rhythm. A major innovation was the idea of time and prolation, the division of beats into breve, semibreve, and minim. Breve represented the full measure, semibreve represents the number of beats in that measure, and minim represents the division of the beat.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

    Renaissance Period in regards to music.
  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale - Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal - Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    This mass is a great example of Palestrina's Style, which was and still is a model for counterpoint. Some of the rules included in Palestrina's Style are: mostly stepwise melodic motion,
    dissonances introduced in suspensions and resolved on strong beats, dissonances are only allowed between beats if the voice that is moving is doing so stepwise or in a suspension, and that leaps are followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction, otherwise known as Palestrina's Arch.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    Gabrieli not only notated range and melody but also notated his preference for instrumentation of the piece as well as dynamics. It is the earliest known piece to call for specific brass instruments. Written to be played at St. Mark's Basilica.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo (Orpheus)

    The first opera to enter standard repertory, L'Orfeo is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The audience was composed for private entertainment and the audience only consisted of men.

  • Public Concerts in England

    Public concerts cultivated a desire to listen to music in the middle class and moved musicians into the employment of royalty and theatre which gave poor payment resulting in the need for multiple incomes. Music was now accessible to more than nobility.
  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Vivaldi's L'estro armonico

    Collection of concerti that was published by the most prestigious publisher in Europe. This collection skyrocketed the popularity of the Italian concerto throughout Europe.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Contains 24 preludes and fugues in each major and minor key. Demonstrates possibilities for playing in all keys on an instrument tuned to near temperament (tuning system).

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Major innovations in regards to chords; outlined the importance of triads and 7th chords and defined root and inversions. Also outlined fundamental bass line, consonance vs. dissonance, tonic, dominant, subdominant as pillars of harmony, V7 - I strongest progression, and central tonic key.
  • Period: to

    Pre-Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    He was the son of a French colonial official and an African Slave on Guadeloupe but was sent to France for education. Eventually became a virtuoso violinist and one of France's best composers, conductors, and violinists.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" Premiere

  • Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert's Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

  • Paganini's 24 Caprices for Violin Op. 1

  • Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Chopin's Mazurkas in B-flat major Op. 7

  • F. Mendelssohn-Hensel's Das Jahr

  • L.M. Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • M. Mussorgsky's PIctures at an Exibition

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagners's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1

  • Debussy's "Voiles" from Preludes Book 1

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

  • Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

  • Manuel de Falla's "Homenaje"

  • Margaret Bonds' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

  • Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"

  • Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring"

  • John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano"

  • Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"

  • George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children"

  • John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"