Music History

By rsheldon
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's "Micrologus"

    The innovation of the 4-line staff, relative pitch, sight-singing syllables, and accidentals.
  • Period: 1066 to

    Baroque Period

  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen birth

  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen death

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    new art: invented the modern notation and metered music
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Motet: Ave Maria...virgo serena

  • 1529

    "Ein feste burg ist unser Gott" (A Mighty Fortress is our God)

    Martin Luther Chorale
  • 1538

    "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

    Arcadelt Madrigal
  • 1567

    "Pope Marcellus Mass"

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    demonstrated that sacred words could be intelligible in polyphonic music with 6 voices.
  • 1572

    Motet: "O magnum mysterium"

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

  • "Sonata pian 'e forte"

    Giovanni Gabrieli, Venice Italy. Church of St. Mark
    one of the first pieces that specified which instrument played which part and the first piece of music that designated dynamics.

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico

    Published by Etienne Roger In Amsterdam, the most prestigious publisher in Europe. It launched the immense popularity of the Italian concerto throughout Europe.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    The piece demonstrates the possibilities for playing in all keys using an instrument tuned un near-equal temperament.

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau: Traite da l'harmonie

    Rameau was the first to bring these together: Triad nad seventh chord importance, defined root of chord and recognized inversions, Fundamental bass line, consonance vs. dissonance, used the terms tonic, dominant, and subdominant, V7-I strongest progression, and a piece that would modulate but still each had a central tonic key.
  • Period: to

    Pre Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Josef Haydn

  • George Frederic Handel: Messiah

  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Joseph Bologne: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as Music Director of Concerts des Amateurs

    He was director of the finest orchestras in Europe, one of France's best composers, conductors, and violinists. He was also a master swordsman.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

  • Franz Josef Haydn: Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" Premiere

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • Claude Debussy "Voiles" from Preludes Book 1

    second piece out of 12 preludes for solo piano published in 1910

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (premiere)

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm"

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

    St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

    Composed between 1946-1948 but was premiered April 6, 1948

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

    release date

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine