Music History Timeline 1

By jordans9402
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's "Micrologus"

    Developed the hexachord system and the 4 line staff
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Also known as "new art". Included rhythmic notation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's "Ave Maria... virgo serena" Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale "Ein feste Burg" (A Mighty Fortress)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

  • 1567

    Palestrina "Pope Marcellus" Mass

    Palestrina supposedly created this to prove to the pope and the catholic church that polyphony could be beautiful.

  • Victoria "Missa O Magnum Mysterium"

  • Gabrieli "Sonata Pian e Forte"

    This was performed at St. Mark's Cathedral. It featured dynamics, which was very new. The instruments used were the cornetto and sackbut.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo"

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Estro Armonico"

    This set new standards to violin playing, and it influenced concerto form.

  • Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" vol. 1

    Established equal temperament for all keys, both major and minor.

  • Rameau's "Traité de l'harmonie"

    This became the basis for teaching functional harmony.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's "Messiah"

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    This was one of the best orchestras in Europe, and it was a big deal to have an African American man as a conductor. He was referred to by John Adams as "the most accomplished man in Europe".

  • Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • 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

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • 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 (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

  • Oliver Messiaen’s “Quatuor puor le fine du temps”

  • Bela Bartok’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”