Music History Timeline (Medieval - Classical Period) - Max Toomey

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne (Years as Holy Roman Emperor)

    500 - 600 tunes were established during his reign as emperor
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    This describes a set of rules for writing polyphonic music
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido of Arezzo created the hexachord system and the musical staff.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Active years of Troubadours/Trobairitz

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    He proposed that the duration of notes should be determined by the way it's drawn on the page, instead of how it is used contextually.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Notes were allowed to be written with greater rhythmic independence.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press Created

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pangue Lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Jacques Arcadelt - Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Location: Renaissance court of Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian’ e forte

    • Written by Giovanni Gabrieli
    • Location: St Mark's in Venice, Italy
    • This is the earliest piece of music to be written for specific brass instruments.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

    Date Premiered
  • Period: to

    First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    George Frideric Handel

  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    Date Premiered

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    Publication Date

  • Brandenburg Concertos

    Date submitted to Brandenburg

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Publication Date

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier Vol. 1

    Bach's Autograph Date
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    Pre Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Lifespan

  • Handel's Messiah

    Date Premiered
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lifespan
  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

    Published: 1800

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

    Premiere date
  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies