Music History Time Line

By jimmysnyder88
  • Period: 400 to 1500

    Medieval Period

  • Period: Dec 25, 800 to Jul 28, 814

    Charlemagne's Rule

    He impressed upon the church that liturgy and music during the mass held great importance.
  • 906

    Musica Enchiriadis

    The first attempt at a set of written rules for polyphony in western music.
  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    A guidebook for how to teach Gregorian chant. This has shaped music education even up till today.
  • Period: Jul 1, 1098 to Sep 17, 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • 1250

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    A text discussing music theory, specifically talking about the breve and semibreve.
  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: Jul 1, 1300 to Apr 13, 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    A text discussing types of rhythmic notation.
  • Period: 1335 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • 1515

    Josquin's Missa Pangue Lingua

  • 1529

    Matin Luther's Ein feste burg

  • 1539

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    The concerto delle donne was a group of professional female singers in Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    This piece was written by Giovanni Gabrieli. This was written to be used in a Catholic mass at St. Marks in Venice. This was both the earliest known music to call for specific instrumentation, and to use different dynamics.
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    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    Handel

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

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    Pre-Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • 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

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • 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

  • Period: to

    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

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

  • 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