Music History Timeline - Bethany Petri

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1317

    Ars nova Treatise

    Triple and duple music notation
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1529

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

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    "Palestrina saved polyphony from being condemned by the Council of Trent by composing a six-voice mass that was both reverent in spirit and attentive to the words."

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    St. Marks church Venice, double chorus motet, 2 groups of 4 instruments and organ accompaniment.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Time Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    twenty-four preludes and fugues, paired in each of the twelve major and minor keys, arranged in rising chromatic order from C to B.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    operating within the system of major and minor keys. Tonal.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

    Lifespan
  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

    Premier

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Suprise"

    Premier Date in London

  • 1. Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (premiere date)

  • 2. Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1 (complete first publication)

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7 (composition date range)

    1830-1832

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (composition date)

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr (composition date)

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico (composition date)

    1857-1858

  • Mussgorsky- Pictures at an Exhibition

    Original Piano version

  • Bizet Carmen Premier

  • Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Completed cycle

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4

    Premier

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1

    Premier

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 “FromThe 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"

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • 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

  • Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine