music history timeline

By laura lesh
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 990 to 1050

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    This document notates how to sing and practice. Arezzo came up with the Hexachord system and solmization (which later became solfeige)
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Replaces old art
  • 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 cingo

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    The piece exemplifies Palersrina’s style. It also demonstrated that sacred words could be intelligible in polyphonic music with 6 voices.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    first piece to specify dynamics (pian'e = soft, forte = loud) and instrumentation!
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    harmonic inspiration, appart of his 9 published Concertos

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    made the book for his students to learn and pracitce from

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Most influential of all Theoretical Works because it became a basis for teaching functional harmony
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    One of France’s best composers, conductors, violinists and a master swordsman
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    in London
  • Period: to

    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 Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

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

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • 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 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine