Music History I & II

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

    What a time.
  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne's Rule of Holy Roman Empire

    First ruler of Holy Roman Empire, Importance: recorded 500-600 Gregorian tunes/chants, unified churches w/ same sermons and music
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    First structure for polyphonic singing; Vox Principalis - original melody , Vox Organali - improvised melody typically a 5th apart
  • Period: 990 to 1050

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus = Little Treatise (1030 CE), Created: Solmization ( putting syllables to scales: ut re mi fa sol la ), Hexachord System (6 note scale)
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    (Composer, took credit for her work, great influence over public, finally recognized in the 80s)
  • Period: 1163 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

    Leonin 1163-1190, Perotin c.1190-1225
  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubadour/trobairitz

    (Courtly love - balcony serenades, France)
  • 1260

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Franconian Mensural Notation - rhythmic notation, distinguished consonant and dissonant intervals
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

    Composer, wrote Messe de Nostre Dame
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Written by Philippe de Vitry, introduced rhyme notation: breve, semi breve
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

    Landini Cadence, Musica Ficta - accidentals!
  • 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press Invention

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1514

    Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Published in 1567
  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Located in Ferrara, Italy.

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Composed by Gabrieli. Performed in St. Mark's Cahedral. This was the first piece to specify instrumentation and include dynamics (forte and piano).
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

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    JS Bach

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    Handel

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

    (year submitted to Brandenburg)

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

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    Pre Classical Period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

    Completed 1741, Premiered in 1742 during Lent
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    Viennese Classical Period

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    Beethoven

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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

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    Franz Schubert

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    Hector Berlioz

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    Beethoven's Symphony No. 5

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    Fanny Mendelssohn

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    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

  • Schubert's Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (premiere)

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1

    composed 1805
    published 1820

  • Schubert's Symphony No.8 “Unfinished”

    started in 1822

  • Beethoven's Symphony No.9

    Composed 1823, Premiered 1824
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    Frederic Chopin - Mazurkas Op.7

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

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    Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Fanny Mendelssohn - Hensel Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

  • Verdi's La traviata

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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (premiere)

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov (premiere)

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune (premiere)

  • Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • 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’’

  • Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine