Music History

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    The innovation of this document was the foundation of the modern music staff, which was created by an arrangement of lines and spaces.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Born: 1098 - Death: 1179
  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The innovation of the Ars Nova Treatise was the implementation of duple rhythms and notation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale: Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal: Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1560

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    The importance of this mass is the demonstration that the polyphonic style could be used to convey the church's message without strictly relying on monophonic or homophonic styles.

  • Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli: Sonata pian’e forte

    Sonata pian’e forte, composed in Venice, Italy, is important because it was an instrumental piece that created a dialogue between divided choir or instrumental sections.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    Vivaldi's concertos were popular in northern Europe and often had fanciful names such as "Harmonic Inspiration." This concerto was his first major work and influenced the structural evolution of concertos.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    In this piece, Rameau recorded his methods on theory into universal laws of music. It became a basis for teaching harmonic theory.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    This book is one of Bach's best-known works which explores the use of all keys of the keyboard tuned to near-equal temperament.
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • 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

    Saint-Georges was one of France's best composers, violinists, and conductors as well as one of the first known composers of African ancestry.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

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

  • Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy’s “Voiles” from Preludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schonberg’s Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schonberg’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 Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine