Music History Timeline

By jacyraecagle
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's "Micrologus"

    The innovation in this document is the four line staff, sight-singing syllables, relative, pitch, and accidentals.
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen birth

  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen death

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    important innovation: invented the modern day notation and metered music
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Motet: Ave Maria ... virgo serena

  • 1529

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

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Showed that sacred words could still be heard in polyphonic music that consisted of 6 voices
  • 1572

    Victoria Missa "O magnum mysterium"

  • Gabrieli "Sonata pian’e forte"

    Was one of the first pieces that specified which specific instrument played each part and introduced dynamics
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    J.S. Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    12 concerts for stringed instruments. This work introduced many new techniques, rythmns, and ideas that are still used today

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Brought forth the idea that all harmony in a piece is based on the root/tonic

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Two sets of preludes and fugues for keyboard in all 24 keys. Used for teaching of youth
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    W.A. Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    Joseph Bologne became the first classical composer of African ancestry

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Premiered in London, 1792.

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

    (premiere date)

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

    premier

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

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

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

    Written in 1899, premiered in 1900

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

    This was the 2nd piece in Debussy's collection of twelve preludes that were all published in 1910

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

    A key work in developing musical modernism

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)

    (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op. 25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

    Written by Lillian Armstrong and sang by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five

  • 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

    Quartet for the End of Time

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring (composed and premiered)

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

    three movement composition

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

    written for the Philips Pavilion

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

    Jazz Album

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine