Music History Camden Wing

By camdenalyza
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido de Arezzo writes Micrologus

    Guido's book Micrologus introduced the hexacord system, a 4 line staff, and solfege indicated by the guidonian hand.
  • 1098

    Hildegard von Bingen born

  • 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen death

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The Ars Nova Treatise standardized rhythm notation, both by labeling duration of notes using breve, semi breve, and minim, and by notating time signature for both triple and duple meters.
  • Period: 1450 to

    The Renaissance

  • 1485

    Josquin writes the motet "Ave Maria ... virgo serena"

  • 1529

    Martin Luther writes the chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"

    Translation: A mighty Fortress is Our God
  • 1538

    Arcadelt writes the madrigal "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

  • 1567

    Palestrina publishes the Pope Marcellus Mass

    Allegedly, Palestrina wrote this piece to prove to that sacred texts could be understood in polyphonic music. This piece became/ still is the model for composing counterpoint.
  • 1572

    Victoria composes the motet "Missa O magnum mysterium"

  • Gabrieli composes "Sonata pian' e forte"

    This piece is tone of the first known pieces to notate dynamic markings. Sonata in this piece refers to the fact it is for instruments, not to be sung. It also uses antiphonal composition techniques that sounded particularly good in St. Mark's Basilica, where Gabrieli worked.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo Written

    Music not published until 1609 and revised 1615.
  • Period: to

    First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach's Lifetime

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico published

    Published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam. Significantly influenced concerto form.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie published

    became basis of teaching functional harmony (and as a result, western music theory).

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Used equal temperament, and along with volume 2 used all 24 major and minor keys.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn lifetime

  • Handel's Messiah Completed

    Premiered in Dublin in 1742 in Lenten season.
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lifetime

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    Saint-Georges was an African-Frenchman conducting what was considered to be one of the finest orchestras of the time.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni premieres

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" Premiere

    Premieres in London

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor premieres

  • Schubert Erlkönig (composition date)

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

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (composition date)

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7 (composition date range)

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr (composition date)

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition composed

  • Bizet's opera Carmen premieres

  • Period: to

    Premire(s) of Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 Premieres

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" composed

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "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

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’ premeire

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine