Music History

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 768 to 814

    Charlemagne's Rule

    Charlemagne supported music in the church and allowed for it to flourish in a way it hadn't before. Gregorian chant became the primary form of chant under his rule, as Pope Gregory was also active during his rule.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    This was the first treatise to address polyphony in Western music and is closest associated with Boethius. It explains the use of consonant and dissonant intervals. The voices are named Vox principalis and Vox organum.
  • 1030

    Guido d'Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido added lines to the staff that allowed for nuemes correlate to a specific pitch. He innovated the hexachord system with a tool called Guido's Hand.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

    Troubadours were traveling musicians in North France performing secular music such as love songs.
  • Period: 1163 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

    Leonin lead the movement from 1163 to 1190. Perotin took charge from 1190 to 1225.
  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    The introduction of Franco Mensural Notation which correlates note shape to duration known as rhythmic modes. Also discussed the use of consonant and dissonant intervals.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Written by Philippe de Vitry, this is the first time breaking away from rhythmic modes with the use of Breve and Semibreve.
  • Period: 1335 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1476

    Josquin’s Ave Maria Virgo Serena motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadet’s Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Located in Ferrara, Italy

  • Musica Transapline

    This was a published collection of Italian madrigals that we’re translated to English. It grew interest for English madrigals.

  • Sonata pian e forte

    Written by Giovani Gabrieli from Venice, it was the first composition that was written for specific instruments.
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    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

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    Versailles’ Orchestra Vingtquatre Violons du Roi

  • First Public Concerts in England

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    J.S. Bach

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    Handel

  • Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

  • Vivaldi’s L’Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concerti

  • Rameau’s Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier vol. 1

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    Pre Classical Period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona

  • Handel’s Messiah

  • Quantz’s Essays on Playing the Flute

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    W.A. Mozart

  • Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

    Gluck wanted to reform opera from being the formulaic recit/da capo aria form it had become. He omitted da capo arias from the opera, and transformed the secco recit into something more lyrical that would better convey the emotions of the characters while propelling the story forward.
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    Viennese Classical Period

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    Beethoven

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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn Op. 33

  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Don Giovanni

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    London Symphonies

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    Franz Schubert

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

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    Frederic Chopin

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, Op. 1

  • Schubert Symphony No. 8

    Began in 1822, it was unfinished

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 9

    Composed in 1823, premiered in 1824

  • Berlioz Symphony fantastique

  • Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

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    Schumann Carnaval

  • Liebst du um Schönheit

    Composed by Clara Wieck Schumann

  • Das Jar

    Composed by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

    Composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

  • Verdi’s La Traviata

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    Moguchaya kuchka

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Souvenir de Porto Rico

    Composed in 1857, published in 1858

  • Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

  • Mussourgsky’s Boris Godunov

  • Bizet’s Carmen

  • Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Mahler’s Symphony No. 1

  • Brahms’ Symphony No. 4

  • Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

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

    The ballet premiered in 1912 while the tone poem was premiered in 1894

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

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    Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

  • Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Messiaen's Quatour pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4'33''

  • Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Kind of Blue Miles Davis

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adam's Short Ride in a Fast Car