Music History

By Ramon Spears
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo’s Micrologus

    It was the first piece with a 4 line staff
    Relative pitch and spacing were also key points in this piece
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1323 to 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria … virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress)

  • 1538

    Arcedelt Madrigal Il bianco e cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Created Polyphony with 6 voices

  • Victoria missa 0 magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    It was the first piece with dynamics
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

    Codified rules for music theory that were used by his contemporaries, and is his most influential piece.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Vol. 1

    Created 24 preludes and fugues in every key, and this was the first time all keys were used in an effective way on one instrument. It also standardized Equal Temperament
  • 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 Ameteurs

  • Mozart's Don Giovonni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 “Surprise”

  • Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor (premier date)

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1 (complete first publication)

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version)

  • Carmen

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere of complete cycle)

  • Johannes Brahms Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premier)

  • Period: to

    Dvorak Symphony No.9 "From the New World"

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sihelius Finlendia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Schonberg Pierrot Lumaine

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Armstrong "Hotter than that"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Period: to

    Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Period: to

    Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine

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