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Span/Range Covered
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St. Patrick returns bringing Christianity
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Vandals destroy Rome
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Plague spreads through Europe
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Justinian's missionaries smuggle silkworms out of China
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Buddhism is introduced
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Pope Gregory collects chant and chant is named Gregorian in his honor.
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Charlemagne crowned in Rome
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Moves from monophony to polyphony
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Vikings discover Greenland
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Old English Epic
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Murasaki Shikibu finishes The Tale of Genji
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Muslims destroy Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
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Italian monk develops learning music by ear.
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Construction begins
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First great woman composer
1098-1179 -
One of the first troubadour poets and the most important musically, since his work was imitated.
1135-1194 -
Begins
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Universities of Paris+Oxford Founded
1150-1167 -
Cathedral in Paris. Seems to reach up to heaven itself.
1163-1345 -
Minnesingers appear in Germany
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Composer of Notre Dame School. Astonished 13th century Paris by creating impressive organa for 4 simultaneous voice parts.
c. 1200 -
1200-1204
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Governs China, becomes ruler of Mongols
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Political churchman serving the courts of France and Luxembourg. Greatest french poet of his time.
1300-1377 -
25-million people die
1347-1351 -
Begins in China
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by Chaucer
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Born and bred in region, which supplied musicians for generations. Worked in Italy where he met artists and thinkers as well as the patrons that supported them.
1400-1474 -
Rebirth of Greek and Roman Classic styles.
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First master of the High Renaissance style. Amazingly imaginative composer.
1450-1521 -
by Turks
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Ivan the Great
1462-1505 -
painted by Leonardo da Vinci
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sculpted by Michelangelo
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Organist. One of the two most important composers in Venice. Exploit special acoustics of St. Mark’s Basilica Cathedral. Giovanni's
uncle.
1510–1586 -
Born outside Rome and worked in the Holy City. Singer/choirmaster at many of Rome’s most famous churches and chapels.
1525–1594 -
From the Netherlands, was worldly and traveled a lot, he settled at the court of Munich. Had enormous output.
1532–1594 -
Organist of England’s Chapel Royal under Queen Elizabeth I. A member of the English dissident Catholic minority. wrote Masses for illegal/highly dangerous services held in secret in barns/attics.
1540–1623 -
Spanish priest who spent many years in Rome working for the Jesuits but ended up in Madrid.
1548–1611 -
Organist. One of the two most important composers in Venice. Exploit special acoustics of St. Mark’s Basilica Cathedral. Andrea's Nephew
1555 –1612 -
In Italian music young boys are castrated at puberty to keep their voices high
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First great composer whose music was attacked for being too radical. Composed madrigals and operas.
1567–1643 -
The three main sources of instrumental music are all evident in his keyboard works. Foremost organ virtuoso of the early seventeenth century.
1583–1643 -
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Monteverdi writes Orfeo, Favola in Musica a prime example of early Baroque musical form
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The greatest English composer of the Baroque era. Organist at Westminster Abbey. Member of the Chapel Royal.
1659–1695 -
London. Kills 75,000 people.
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Mozart style prodigy. Famous harpsichordist
1667-1729 -
Son of a Venetian violinist. Became music teacher at orphanage for girls.
1678–1741 -
founded by William Penn
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Operas stirred up controversy, but filled houses.
1683-1764 -
20 Kids, wrote a new cantata every week in first year at Leipzig.
1685-1750 -
Wrote German operas most were lost. Wrote 40 Italian operas.
1685-1759 -
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas opens in London
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Keiser uses French horns for the first time in opera
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Vivaldi writes the four seasons
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His last great operatic success.
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Premieres in Dublin to an enthusiastic audience.
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1756-1763
Global War that lasted seven years -
1775-1783
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1792-1802
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1803-1815
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1812-1815
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1846-1848
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1854-1856
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