Music History I Final Timeline Project

By OttoBengal
  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 1025 to 1028

    Guido of Arezzo's formulation of the Solmization System

  • Period: 1098 to Sep 17, 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Her exact Birthdate is uncertain.
  • 1317

    Ars Nova Treatise

    This was the earliest example of isorhythm (musically unifying device).
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1529

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

  • 1539

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Palestrina's Mass was written in a, "new manner."
  • 1570

    Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Giovanni Gabrieli Sacrae Symphoniae

    The Sacrea Symphoniae were published in Venice. It was Gabrielli's Symphony.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concert in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach Life

    Born March 31, 1685
    Died July 28th, 1750

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico both greatly influenced the development of Concertos North of Italy. But it also pioneered the use of Ritornello form.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier changed Western Music's view on composition and performing.

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

    Rameau explains how to write music tonally.
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    Franz Joseph Haydn's Life

  • Handel's Messiah

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    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart's Life

  • Period: to

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

    Chevalier was an acclaimed composer and musician. This was especially notable considering he lived in a time of slavery and extreme racism.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in c minor

    Premier Date

  • Schubert Erlkönig

    Composition Date

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    Complete First Publication

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    Composition Date
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    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

    Composition Date Range

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

    Composition Date
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    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere date)

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

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4 (premiere date)

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1 (premiere)

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

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

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

  • Arnold Schönberg'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 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 Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine