Music History

By caseyferguson14
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 768 to 814

    Charlemagne

    Significant because he had the chants recorded.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    A musical treatise for polyphony.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    A variety of organum accompanying voice.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1163 to 1225

    Notre Dame School of Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubadour/ trobairitz

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/ Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    "The art of measurable music"
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Rhythmic Notation
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1450 to 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • 1515

    Josquin Missa Pange Lingua

  • 1527

    Martin Luther's Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Sonata pian’e forte was by Gabrielli, and it was the first piece to tell which instruments to use, and the first piece to give dynamics.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Period: to

    Handel

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • L'Estro Armmonico

    by Antonio Vivaldi

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Traité de l'harmonie

    by Rameau

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier

    volume 1
  • Period: to

    Pre Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

    Premiered in Dublin in 1742, during lent.
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Beethoven

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    As director of Concerts Des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op. 33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 in c minor

  • Schubert’s “Erlköng”

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Niccolo Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin op. 1

  • Schubert's Symphony No. 8 “unfinished”

  • Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

    Premiered in 1824

  • Federic Chopin Mazurkas op. 7

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann “Liepst du um Schönheit”

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy- Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64

  • Verdi's La Traviata

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahm's Symphony no. 4

  • Mahler's Symphony no. 1

  • Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony no. 9 "New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op 25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Oliver Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4'33''

  • Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine