Music History

By wmerritt98
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus included the 4-line staff, the hexachord system, round b (flat), and square b (natural).
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen Birth

  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen death

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    This replaced Ars antiqua and created a form of dictation for time and prolation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria ... virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress..)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Palestrina rules are still used in present day textbooks. The rules for Palestrina counterpoint include: Mostly stepwise melodic motion, dissonances introduced in suspensions and resolved on strong beats, dissonances between beats are allowed if the moving voice is doing so in a stepwise fashion or as a suspension, and most leaps are followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction resulting in the ”Palestrina arch” (or curve)

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    This was composed in Venice, Italy to be performed at St. Mark's Cathedral. This was the first musical composition that specified instrumentation and employs two ensembles of equal size.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    It was published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam, the most prestigious publisher in Europe. It launched the immense popularity of the Italian concerto throughout Europe.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Most influential of all theoretical works. Codified practices of his contemporaries, especially Corelli. Became basis for teaching functional harmony that is still used today.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Contains 24 preludes and fugues in each major and minor key. It demonstrates the possibilities for playing in all keys using and instrument tuned in near-equal temperament.
  • Period: to

    Pre classical

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    It was one of the finest orchestras in Europe. He was one of France's best composers, conductors, and violinists. US President John Adams called him "the most accomplished man in Europe".

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Paganini 24 Caprices

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelunge

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (premiere

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premier

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Pian0

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Childre

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine