History of Music

  • 476

    Beginning of the middle age

    The Western Roman Empire fell
  • Period: 476 to 507

    Kingdom of Tolosa

    Time of great insecurity in the Iberian Peninsula.
  • 732

    Battle of poitiers

    The Franks managed to stop the Muslim advance.
  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    Leonin y Perotin

    They belonged to the music school of Notre Dame Cathedral, noted for its compositional innovations of sacred music.
  • 1200

    Hildegard von Bingen

    Composed a great variety of sacred music.
  • 1221

    Alfonso X

    Cantigas de Santa María.
  • Period: 1400 to 1500

    Gotic art

    Urban art characterized for the construction of big cathedrals.
  • Period: 1440 to 1521

    Josquín des Pres

    I cultivate both religious and secular music.
  • 1453

    Beggining of the Renaissance

    fall of the Byzantine empire,
  • 1454

    Lived a recovery

    After the economic crisis and the castastrophes, they experienced a recovery
  • Period: 1479 to 1504

    Reing of the catholic King

    Catholic King is the name given to the spousses Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castilla.
  • 1492

    End of the middle age

    Fall of the Byzantine Empire and the discovery of America.
  • Period: 1500 to 1520

    Quattrocento

    Characterized by anthropocentrism, the rebirth of Antiquity and the support of patrons.
  • 1521

    Dead of Josquin des Prés

    Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, considered the most famous European Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

    He was the most famous English composer of the last years of the Tudor era and the first Stuart era. It belonged to the Late Renaissance.
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Counter-Reformation

    In Italy, the meeting of the Council of Trent and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation.
  • 1556

    Philip II and hegemony

    In Spain, the accession to the throne of Philip II and the beginning of Spanish hegemony (which would last until the Thirty Years' War).
  • Period: 1564 to

    Wiliam Shakespeare

    He has passed into the history of literature; for his theatrical genius, and especially for the impressive portrait of the human condition in his great tragedies
  • Beginning of te Baroque

    Pessimistic view of life and the importance of feelings.
  • Don quijote de la Macha

    Miguel de Cervantes began to write Don Quixote in one of his prison periods.
  • El mágico prodigioso

    The Magical Prodigious is a drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Period: to

    Joann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, conductor, violinist, singer and teacher of the Baroque period.
  • Period: to

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Gluck, was a German composer.
  • The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Beginning of the Classical period

    It was called the “Century of Light”.
  • Period: to

    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the neoclassical style. He sought inspiration in Greek sculptural and mythological models.
  • End of te Baroque

    Death of composer Johan Sebastián Bach
  • Period: to

    William Blake

    William Blake was a British poet, painter, and printmaker. Although he remained largely unknown during his lifetime, Blake's work is held in high esteem today.
  • Orfeo y Eurídice

    Orpheus and Eurydice is an opera in three acts by the German composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck, with a libretto by Raniero di Calzabigi.
  • Period: to

    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was an American statesman, the seventh president of the United States. Jackson was born at the end of the colonial era somewhere on the still unmarked border of North Carolina and South Carolina.
  • Independence of the United States of America.

    The congressmen, representatives of the thirteen colonies, proclaimed the Act of Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
  • Oath of the Horatii

    Oath of the Horatii is a work by Jacques-Louis David made in.
  • End of the Renaissance

    Ended with the French revolution.
  • Period: to

    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France.
  • Period: to

    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German Romantic composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist.
  • The Napoleonic Wars

    The Napoleonic Wars, also called the Coalition Wars, were a series of wars that took place during the time Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte ruled France.
  • End of the Classical period

    Ended between the early Modern period and the late Modern Period.
  • Beginning of the Romanticism period

    Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music etc.
  • The Raven

    The Raven is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It constitutes his most famous poetic composition, since it gave him international recognition.
  • La Campanella

    La Campanella is a study for piano composed by the pianist and composer Franz Liszt. It is Study No. 3 of Paganini's Grandes Études and is written in the key of G sharp minor.
  • Beginning of the 20th century

    The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era.
  • End of the Romanticism period

    The English Romantic Period ended with the coronation of Queen Victoria.
  • Period: to

    John Cage

    John Cage he was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. Pioneer of random music, of electronic music.
  • Period: to

    First World War

    World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey).
  • Period: to

    Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a British poet, short story writer and playwright. Famous for being a bohemian and also famous for his captivating booming voice, which attracted, like a youthful singer.
  • Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule.
  • The Second Coming

    The Second Coming is a poem written by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats
  • Etudes Australes

    Etudes Australes is a set of solo piano studies by John Cage, composed in 1974-1975 for Grete Sultan.
  • End of the 20th century

    The End of the Twentieth Century is a monumental installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys from 1983, at the Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin.