music history timeline project

  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 768 to 814

    Charlemagne

    Inspired the use of spreading religion and propagandas through music; as well as using music for education.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    rules for polyphonic music
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido of Arezzo invented the treatise Micrologus which is used to sing and write gregorian chants.
  • Period: 1098 to Sep 17, 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    Troubadour Trobairitz

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1163 to 1190

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1163 to 1190

    Leonin

  • Period: 1190 to 1225

    Perotin

  • Period: 1250 to 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    The Ars Cantus Mensurablis is a Trieste or music theory system, that consist of six rhythmic modes
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1315 to 1375

    Ars Nova Treatise

    a art and rhythmic metter written by Phillipe de Vitry
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • Period: 1562 to 1563

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Ferrara, Italy,
  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Written by Giovanni Gabrieli; The earliest piece to include brass instruments