Music History I Timeline

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  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne Years as Holy Roman Emperor

    Charlemagne allowed Gregorian Chant to flourish in the church during the medieval period.
  • Period: 850 to 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Musica Enchiriadis is the first known attempt at a set of rules for western polyphonic music.
  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    This micrologus developed the four line scale, relative pitch, and sight singing during the medieval period.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubador/Trobairitz

  • Period: 1250 to 1280

    Franco of Cologne/ Ars Cantus Mensuabilis

    The Ars Cantus Mensuabilis was a treatise written by Franco of Cologne that summarized the 6 rhythmic modes of the time.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The Ars Nova Treatise was written by Philippe de Vitry. This treatise demonstrates innovation in rhythmic notation included in the new music of that time.
  • Period: 1335 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1440

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1515

    Josquin's Missa Pange lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther's Ein Feste Burg

  • 1538

    Archadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Location: Court of Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    Sonata pian'e forte was written by Giovanni Gabrieli to be performed in St. Mark's Cathedral. It was one of the first pieces to be written specifically for instruments, and it was the first piece to specify dynamics.
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    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concert in England

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    Handel

  • Period: to

    J. S. Bach

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

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    Pre Classical Period

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    Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Josef Haydn

  • The Well Tempered Clavier Volume 1

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Beethoven Birth

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    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op. 33 String Quartets (published)

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Beethoven's 5th symphony premier

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (premiere date)

    Premiered in Teatro Argentina, Rome, Italy

  • paganini caprices for unaccompanied violin op 1 publication date

  • Schubert Unfinished Symphony composition date

  • Beethoven Symphony 9 premier date

  • Beethoven Death

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Composition Date

  • chopin mazurkas op 7 publication date

  • Carnaval Robert Schumann Composition Date

  • Das Jahr Composition Year

  • clara schumann liebst du um schönheit compostion date

  • Berlioz treatise on instrumentation date

  • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor

  • Verdi 's La traviata composition date

    *Composed during the winter of 1852-1853

  • louis moreau gottschalk's souvenir de porto rico composition date

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (premiere)

    Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Germany

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov (premiere)

    Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere)

    Bayreuth Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Germany

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1 (premiere)

    Vigado Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary
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    Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

    Composed between February 1891 and April 1892

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

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

  • Period: to

    Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire Composition Date

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

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    Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25 compostion dates

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Composition date

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

    Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film) date

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

    It was composed 1944, and it was premiered on October 30, 1944.

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique composition date

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

    It was released in 1959 and recorded on April 22, 1959.

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

    It was composed during the Vietnam War.

  • john adams short ride in a fast machine