Music Timeline

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Mideval Period

  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Era

  • 800

    Musica Enchiriadis

    First example of setting up a system for notating polyphony
  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor

    500-600 tunes were established during his reign. Eventually these pieces were expanded to 3000 pieces
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    It helped standardize parts of Gregorian chant in how it would be sung. It also contained commentary on polyphony.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen Birth and Death

    Composed Gregorian chant. She was the first if not one of the first composers to sign her work.
  • Period: 1163 to 1125

    Notre Dame "School" of Polyphony

  • Period: 1170 to 1260

    Trobairitz

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    German intellectual who taught in Paris
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1315 to 1375

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Time and Prolation added to notation
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press

    Allowed production of musical text en masse. This allowed for more musical knowledge reaching the general public
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1527 to 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

    Note: Powerpoint did not say a specific time it was composed. This date was found after a google search.
  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Group of professional female singers in Ferrara, Italy.

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Written by Giovanni Gabrieli. It was most likely written to be performed at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy. It was the earliest piece to call for specific brass instruments and it pioneered using soft and loud dynamics.
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    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concert in England

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    JS Bach birth and death

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    Handel (Birth and Death Date)

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos (Year Submitted)

  • Handel's Messiah

    Composed in 1721, premiered in 1722

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

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    Pre Classical Period

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    Haydn

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    WA Mozart

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    Viennese Classical

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    Beethoven Lifespan

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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    London Symphonies (Haydn)

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    Franz Schubert (Birth and Death)

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Premiere Date)

  • Schubert Erlkönig (composition date)

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Rossini II Barbiere di Siviglia (Premiere Date)

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op. 1 (Complete first publication)

  • Paganini 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1

  • Erlkonig - Schubert

  • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)

    Many critics view this as Beethoven's greatest symphony. Both No. 5 and No. 9 are positively his greatest symphonies

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Composition Date)

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    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7 (Composition Date Range)

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Schumann "Carnaval"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr (Composition Date)

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Verdi 's La traviata

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

  • "Unfinished" Symphony - Schubert

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (Premiere of Complete Cycle)

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Original Piano Version)

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Bizet Carmen (Premiere Date)

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Sympohony No.4 (Premiere)

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (Premiere)

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Claude Debussy

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

    Arguably Beethoven's greatest symphony. This specific piece is characterized with a very angry tone throughout the piece.

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (Premiere Date)

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

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    Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin

  • Hotter Than That - Lois Armstrong

  • George and Ira Gershwin "I Got Rhythm"

  • Dimitri Schotakovic Symphony No.5 (Premiere Date)

  • Cottontail - Duke Ellington

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • Margaret Bonds "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine