Music history

  • 382

    the canon

    Is an example of initative counterpoint , it has polyphonic texture
    with several similar but independent melodic lines that imitate each other, starting one after other.
  • 476

    Begin from the middle ages

    the beginning of the Middle Ages encompasses the fall of the Western Roman Empire
  • Period: 501 to Jan 1, 801

    the gregorian music

    the Roman Catholic Church compiled its
    simple songs. We call this musical repertoire Gregorian chant in honor of Pope Gregory
  • 771

    muslim invasion

    muslim invasion
    Muslims invaded the peninsula with the idea of spreading Islam. They defeated the Christians and slowly conquered the peninsula.
    Muslims entered through the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • Period: Jan 1, 801 to 1401

    Feudalism ( high middle ages)

    Feudalism was a social, political and economic system , characterized by the division of society into three large estates (nobility, clergy and peasantry)
  • May 20, 1033

    Guido d’Arezzo

    Guido d’Arezzo
    Guido d’Arezzo named the music notes on the scales he took the first syllable of each line of a hymn dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
  • Period: 1073 to

    Gregorian reform

    A broad reform was proposed that wanted to return to the original evangelical life, the election of the pope was regulated.
    In addition, the spiritual power of the pope over all Christendom was reaffirmed
  • 1088

    first universities

    The changes of the Gregorian Reformation were of great importance to Europe.
    the first university was founded in bologna
  • Jan 1, 1401

    humanism

    humanism
    During the Renaissance era Humanism emerged. A cultural movement where we stop believing in theocentrism. And the human species becomes the center of the world
    Humanism originated in Italy
  • Period: Jan 1, 1401 to Jan 31, 1500

    The Quattrocento

    Quattrocento (XV century). In Florence appeared the innovations of the Renaissance (harmony and proportion). The main architects were Brunelleschi and Alberti; Ghiberti and Donatello stood out among the sculptors, and among the painters, Masaccio, Fra Angélico and Botticelli.
  • Jan 1, 1440

    the imprent

    the imprent
    Printing is a mechanical method designed to reproduce texts and images on paper.The invention of the printing press is attributed to the German, Johannes Gutenberg
  • Period: Jan 1, 1440 to Jan 1, 1521

    the music during the Renaissance

    Among the composers, the most prominent figure was Josquín des Pres (he was a Franco-Flemish composer) , who cultivated both religious and secular music.
    Some examples of his works are missa hercules dux ferrariae or nymphes des bois.
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The discovery of America

    The discovery of  America
    Cristobal Colón discovered America. This trip was financed by the Catholic Monarchs . These period also marked the end of the Middle ages
  • Period: Jan 1, 1556 to

    Philip's reign

    Felipe II was King of Spain,
    He Belonging to the Austrias dynasty.
    He is the husband of the daughter of the Catholic kings , Juana
  • The beginning of the baroque

    it was a period of history in western culture originated by a new way of conceiving art, in which an attempt was made to show a crude reality
  • Period: to

    The division between monarchies

    The division between absolutist monarchies (France and Spain) and countries with parliamentary monarchies (England).
  • The death of queen Elizabeth I

    The  death  of  queen  Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth was the queen of both England and Ireland she was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
  • Don Quixote de la Mancha

    Don Quixote de la Mancha is a Spanish novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
    This book narrates the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a poor hidalgo who, from reading chivalric novels so much, ends up going crazy and believing himself to be a knight-errant, naming himself Don Quixote de la Mancha.
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    Las Meninas

    Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV is considered the masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez.
    Today this famous work is located in Prado National Museum
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    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach was a composer, organist, harpsichordist, conductor, violinist
    he wrote some amazing works like Christmas Oratorio and the Brandenburg Concertos
  • the four seasons

    Anthony Vivaldi wrote this composition and divided it into four parts. Through this composition he wanted to capture the feelings that the different seasons of the year aroused in him.
  • the classical period

    The Classical period was an era of classical music . The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods.
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    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classic period, as well as being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet".
  • Period: to

    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the neoclassical style. He looked for inspiration in Greek sculptural and mythological models, based on their austerity and severity.
    One of the most outstanding uses of his is Oath of the Horatii
  • the lightning rod

    the lightning rod
    The electricity traveled down the kite string until it reached the key. Thus he showed that it was possible to attract lightning to iron structures.
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    Caspar David Friedrich

    Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter. He has often been recognized as the most outstanding German artist of his generation.
    Some of his best works are the walker on the sea and the monk at the seashore
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    War of Independence in the United States

    It was a warlike conflict that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It ended with the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
  • US declaration of independence

    The Declaration of Independence announced the United States' independence from Britain. The colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It said the British government did not respect the rights of the colonists.
  • Fígaro

    The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa in four acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on an Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the piece by Pierre Augustin
  • Period: to

    Eugène Delacroix

    Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix was a French painter and lithographer . Some of his works are The death of Sardanapalus
  • Napoleon invades Spain and overthrows Philip VII.

    Napoleon invades Spain and overthrows Philip VII.
    Napoleon's troops entered the Iberian Peninsula. ... In 1808, the Bourbon king Ferdinand VII became king of Spain, but Napoleon subsequently expelled him, causing a crisis that reverberated throughout the Spanish empire.
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    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German Romantic composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist. Mainly his operas stand out for their contrapuntal texture, chromatic richness, harmony, orchestration and an elaborate use of leitmotifs.
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    the Second Industrial Revolution

    The Second Industrial Revolution refers to the interrelated changes that occurred from approximately 1870 to 1914, when the First World War began. During this period the changes underwent a strong acceleration
    New materials and raw materials, such as iron and steel, were used.
    Greater number of energy sources besides coal: gasoline, electricity and steam. ...
    Invention of new machines
  • the romantic period

    Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom through the end of the 18th century as a revolutionary reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism
  • Liberty Leading the People

    Liberty Leading the People
    Liberty Leading the People is a painting painted by Eugène Delacroix it is kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris and one of the most famous in history.
    The canvas is an evocation of the French Revolution of 1789, which proclaimed the universal values of liberty, equality and fraternity
  • the new world symphony

    Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, also known as the New World Symphony, is possibly Antonín Dvořák's best-known symphony. It was composed in 1893 during the composer's stay in the United States.
  • Sinking of the Titanic

    Sinking of the Titanic
    The Titanic, the world's largest ship, hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at night and sank, killing around 1,500 people. About 700 survived
  • Period: to

    John Cage

    John Milton Cage was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatory music, electronic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant garde.
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    World War I

    The triggering cause of the First World War: the assassination of the Archduke of Austria. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia. The First World War was divided into four stages, the phases of the conflict are the following: the war of movement (1914) the war of positions (1915 to 1917) the crisis of 1917 and the end of the war (1918)
  • Bolero

    Bolero is a musical work created by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1928 and premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on November 22 of that same year. Bolero is an orchestral movement inspired by a Spanish dance, characterized by an invariable rhythm and tempo, with an obsessive melody
  • French May

    French May
    It is known as French May or May 1968 to the chain of protests that took place in France and, especially, in Paris during the months of May and June 1968. This series of spontaneous protests was initiated by student groups opposed to the consumer society, capitalism, imperialism, authoritarianism, and that in general disavowed the political and social organizations of the time.
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    dissolution of the soviet union

    the dissolution of the USSR consisted of the disintegration of the federal political structures and the central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that culminated in the independence of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union .