Music History

By sophiac3
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medival Period

  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Beginning of Gregorian Chant.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    The most prolific European composer before 1500.
  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Laid the groundwork for modern music notation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg

  • 1539

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

    1st explicit/erotic madrigal
  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    developed counterpoint/ his Pope Marcellus Mass demonstrated that words could be intelligible in polyphonic music with six voices.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

    Parody Mass

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    In Italy, the first musical coposition in which instrumentation is specified.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

    Orfeo's Lament

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    first published set of concertos

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    a single keyboard is tuned in such a way that the performer can play in all 24 keys

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    solidified the principals of tonality
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    one of the finest orchestras in Europe
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

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