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476
Beginning of the Middle Ages
The Western Roman Empire fell. -
800
Gregorian singing
It is functional music, exclusively intended for the Christian liturgy (mass and office). It is a monodic song.Its text is in Latin.
The rhythm (called free) is linked to the text and does not have a predetermined beat. It is sung without instrumental accompaniment and usually only with male voices. -
1000
Medieval literature
From the 11th century on, we find the first literary manifestations in vernacular or Romance languages. -
1054
Eastern schism
The first of these divisions took place in 1054, when the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope of Rome mutually excommunicated each other for both political and theological reasons. In this way the Orthodox Church was born, which has very few differences with the Catholic Church. -
Period: 1073 to 1085
Gregorian reform
Result of the measures taken by the Roman Pontiff Gregory VII (1073-1085). These measures sought the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff. -
Period: 1213 to 1239
Moniot d' Arras
Moniot d'Arras was a French composer and poet of the trouvère tradition.
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Period: 1284 to 1344
Art in the Middle Age
Simone Martini was an artist of gothic art.
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Period: 1400 to
Culture
The Renaissance was an influential cultural movement that started in Italy and
spread all over Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. It was characterised by the
“rebirth” of the culture of antiquity: Greece and Rome. -
Period: 1400 to 1450
The Rise of Rome and the de Medici Family.
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1453
The fall of Byzantine empire
The Byzantine empire fell, and the Modern period starts. -
1492
End of the Middle Ages
The discovery of America. -
1494
Charles VIII of France invades Italy
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1498
Music in the Renaissance
Johannes Ockeghem – Intemerata Dei Mater.
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1504
David of michelangelo
Michelangelo finish David in 1504 -
Period: Feb 3, 1525 to
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best known representative of the Roman School of musical composition of the 16th century. -
Period: 1561 to
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Gongora, Spain, 1561-1627. Most representative works: Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea; Solitudes. -
Beginning of the Baroque period
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Death of Elizabeth I
Some say that she may have died of blood poisoning, brought on by her use of a lead-based makeup known as “Venetian Ceruse” (or “the spirits of Saturn”). -
Period: to
Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time took part. This war marked the future of the whole of Europe in the following centuries. -
Pedro Pablo Rubens: The horrors of war.
Pedro Pablo Rubens: The horrors of war. 1638. Oil on panel. 206 × 345 cm.
Pitti Palace, Florence. -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichord, conductor, violinist, viola player, chapelmaster, singer, and teacher of the Baroque period. -
Four seasons of Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
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Beginning of the classical period
The Italians were the first to develop these genres, but the Germans, Austrians and English soon followed. -
End of the Baroque period
In the same respect, the year 1750 is considered the end of the Baroque due to the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. His music is considered to be the culmination of the Baroque style. -
Period: to
First industrial revolution
New sources of energy appeared. Machinery started to be used in textile production and agriculture, as well as to transport goods, and work started to be organised in a different way. All of these factors led to started to be organised in a different way. All these factors led
to a modern, industrial society and growth in production and commerce. -
Period: to
Neoclassicism
The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music. -
Period: to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history. -
American revolution
Political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. They first rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them from overseas without representation, and then expelled all royal officials. -
End of the Modern period
French revolution marks the end of Modern period -
1.Ave Verum Corpus, Kv. 618
When Leopold Hofmann, the Kapellmeister of St. Stephen's Cathedral, fell ill, Mozart saw the possibility of earning some income from the composition of sacred works. That is why he decided to write this work dedicated to Anton Stoll, director of the Baden parish choir.
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Napoleon enthroned
Is an 1806 portrait of Napoleon I of France in his coronation costume, painted by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. -
End of the classical period
Los siglos XVII y XVIII fueron el periodo formativo de la música clásica y vieron nacer la opera y el oratorio, la sonata, el concierto y la sinfonía. -
Beginning of the Romantic period
Is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century as a revolutionary reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings. -
Napoleon dies on Saint Helena
He was kept there from October 1815 until May 5th 1821. At Longwood House he had written prose and dictated his last will and testament. -
Period: to
Charles Darwin's journey aboard HMS Beagle.
Charles Darwin received an astounding invitation: to join the HMS Beagle as ship's naturalist for a trip around the world. For most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America, leaving Darwin free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galápagos. -
The first electric motor was built
The first electric motor that had enough power to perform a task and his invention was used to power a small-scale printing press. -
Period: to
Antonin Dvorák
One of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition and one of the great composers of the second half of the 19th century. -
Death of Robert Schumann
He was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic -
Period: to
War of the Pacific
Fought over resource-rich territory along the Pacific coast between Chile and an alliance of Bolivia and Peru -
Beginning of the 20th century
The 20th century begins -
Period: to
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. -
End of the Romantic period
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Period: to
Invention of the rock and roll
Rock and roll as such, has its origins between 1930 and 1950, however, elements of this genre can be observed in rhythm and blues productions that date back even to the 1920s. -
Period: to
World War II
World War II was a global military conflict. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it. -
Edvard Munch dies
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker. His evocative works on anguish profoundly influenced early 20th-century German Expressionism. -
Construction of the Berlin wall.
The berlin wall is build to divide the URSS and the allies. -
Publication of the song I Love Rock 'n' Roll
This is a rock and roll song from the artist Joan Jett & the Blackhearts -
End of the 20th century
The 20th century ends