Major Frank Music History II Final Timeline

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus introduced the 4-line staff, relative pitch (Hexachord System), and sight-singing (via Guidonian Hand).
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Birth
  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Death
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The Treatise revolutionized notation; it added perfect & imperfect mode, time, and prolation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal I

  • 1567

    Pope Marcellus Mass

    Created basic rules for music composition, including the Palestrina counterpoint.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum Mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian'e forte

    Performed at St. Mark's Basilica. It was the first musical work to incorporate dynamics and designate a specific instrument for a part.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • JS Bach Birth

  • Antonia Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    Inspired harmonic progressions in future compositions

  • Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie

    The score became the basis for teaching functional harmony

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    Revolutionized the concept of equal temperament to tune
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Franz Joseph Haydn Birth

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    "The Black Mozart" becomes the director of one of the best orchestras in Europe

  • JS Bach Death

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Birth

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No.94 "Surprise" premiere in London

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Death

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices of Violin, op. 1

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Franz Joseph Haydn Death

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

    (Piano ver.)

  • Georges Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

    (Complete Cycle Premiere)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1

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

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Claude Debussy's "Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

  • 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

    (1943-44)

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgard Varèse Poème électronique

    (1957-58)

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine