Music History I

By emilyepperly
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    "Micrologus" - Guido of Arezzo

    Guido of Arezzo's inventions were the 4-line staff, relative pitch, and sight singing. He also invented solfege, and the Hexachord system.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The important innovation was time in music, noted as perfect or imperfect.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    "Ave Maria... virgo serena" - Josquin

  • 1529

    Martin Luther "Ein feste burg"

  • 1538

    "Il bianco e dolce signo" Arcadelt Madrigal

  • 1567

    Palestrina "Pope Marcellus" Mass

    Legend tells that this piece was written for the Pope to prove that sacred words could be intelligible in polyphonic pieces.
  • 1572

    Victoria "Missa O magnum mysterium"

  • Gabrieli "Sonata pian'e forte"

    This piece was composed in the St. Mark's Basilica, and the musical significance was the introduction of dynamics.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • "L'Orfeo" Monteverdi

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    J. S. Bach

  • "L’Estro Armonico" Vivaldi

    Vivaldi's concertos were all about the new tonality that had come with the Baroque era, and this concerto (translated to "Harmonic Interest") exemplified the new tonality well.

  • "Traité de l’harmonie" Rameau

    This piece codified the practices of his contemporaries, and also became the basis for teaching functional harmony. As well, this was the most influential of all theoretical works at the time.

  • "The Well-Tempered Clavier" Volume 1 Bach

    This was the first collection of pieces written in all 24 keys, which proved that Bach had invented a new, more functional tonality system, known as equal temperament.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • "Messiah" Handel

  • Period: to

    W. A. Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    The Concert des Amateurs was one of the finest orchestras in Europe, and Joseph Bologne was a black, virtuoso violinist and composer who led the orchestra.

  • "Don Giovanni" Mozart

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony no. 5 in c minor Premiere Date

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices

  • 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 (original piano version)

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere date)

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere of complete cycle)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

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

  • Maple Leaf Rag Joplin

  • Sibelius Finlandia

  • Voiles Debussy

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

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

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Hotter Than That Armstrong

  • Gershwin I Got Rhythm

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Cottontail Ellington

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók'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