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Period: 476 to 1500
Medieval Period
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Period: Dec 25, 800 to Jan 28, 814
Charlemagne becomes Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This symbolized the dominance of the church in society during the middle ages, which lead to an increase to the number of tunes written during his reign starting from 300-500 to about 3000 songs. -
850
The anonoymous musical treatiste of musica enchiriadis is written
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1026
Guido De Arezzo writes his book: Micrologus
It is a book written by Guido de Arezzo that was the foundation of how Gregorian chant should be sung and taught in the monasteries. In the book, he discusses the use of parallel organum and free organum and the avoidance of the perfect 5th, and minor 2nd intervals and instead advocating the usage of the major 2nd and perfect 4th intervals. His most important contribution to the work is his instruction on how to use the occursus, which is an ancestor of the cadence. -
Period: 1098 to Sep 17, 1179
Hildegard von Bingen's lifespan
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Period: 1100 to 1350
Troubadour/Trobairitz are active
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Period: 1160 to 1250
Notre Dame School of Polyphony
It was the group of composers who worked at or near the Notre Dame in Paris who helped establish Polyphony as a standard for church music -
Period: 1250 to 1280
Franco of Cologne was active
He was a German music theorist who was know for dictating that the length of the note should be expressed by how the note is written on the score. -
Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut's lifespan
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Period: 1300 to
Renaissance time period
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1320
Ars Nova is written
It was a treatise that was written around 1320 by Philip de Vitry that talked about a new style of music that focused on how the length of notes should be written, the meaning of coloured notes and mensural notation -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini's lifespan
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1436
The Gutenberg printing press is invented
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1515
Josquin des Prez writes his Missa Pange lingua
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1529
Martin Luthur writes Ein feste Burg
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1539
Arcadelt writes Il Bianco e dolce cigno
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1562
Palestrina writes Pope Marcellus Mass
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Period: 1580 to
Concerto delle donne ensemble is active
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Sonata Pian'e forte is written
This composition, written by Giovanni Gabrieli was the first composition to include dynamic markings in the music (loud and soft) and was the first composition written for specific instruments (brass instruments) -
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Baroque Period
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Monteverdi write L'Orfeo
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Public concerts are first held in England
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George Frideric Handels' lifespan
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J.S. Bachs' lifespan
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Henry Purcell writes Dido and Aeneas
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Vivaldi's L'estro armonico is published
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Bach writes his Brandenburg Concertos
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Rameau publishes Traité de l’harmonie
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Bach writes his first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier
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Pre-Classical period
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Joseph Haydn's lifespan
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Handel's Messiah is composed
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's lifespan
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Viennese Classical period
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Ludwig van Beethoven's lifespan
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges is the director of the Concerts des Amateurs
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Haydn's op 33 string quartets are published
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Mozart writes his 23rd Piano Concerto
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Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni is premiered
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Haydn composes his 12 London Symphonies
They were composed in two groups. One group of six when he first travelled to London in 1791 and the other set of 6 in 1794-95 -
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Schubert's lifespan
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Beethoven's 5th symphony is premiered
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Schubert writes Erlkonig
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Rossini's Barber of Seville is premiered
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Paganini's 24 caprices are published
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Schubert's unfinished symphony is composed
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Beethoven's 9th symphony is premiered
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Chopin writes his Mazurkas
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Berlioz writes his Symphonie fantastique
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Robert Schumann writes Carnaval
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel writes Das Jahr
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Clara Schumann writes Liebst du um Schönheit
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Mendelssohn writes his violin concerto in E Minor
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Berlioz writes his treatise on instrumentation
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Verdi's La Traviata is premiered
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk writes Souvenir de Porto Rico
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is premiered
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Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is premiered
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Bizet's Carmen is premiered
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Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is premiered
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Brahms's symphony # 4 is premiered
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Mahler's Symphony # 1 is premiered
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Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is premiered
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Dvorak composes his New World symphony
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Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune is premiered
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Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is published
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia is premiered
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Puccini's Madama Butterfly is premiered
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Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire is premiered
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Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps is premiered
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Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25 is composed
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George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is written
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That" is written
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Shostakovich Symphony No.5 is premiered
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Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film) is premiered
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Ellington's Cottontail is written
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Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps is premiered
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Copland Appalachian Spring is premiered
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Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is premiered
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John Cage's 4’33’’ is composed
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Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique is written
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Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" is released
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George Crumb's Black Angels is written
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John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine is written