MUSICAL TIMELINE BY DIEGO FLORES

  • Beginning of the Middle Ages
    476

    Beginning of the Middle Ages

    The Western Roman Empire fell.
  • Gregorian singing
    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.
  • Medieval literature
    1000

    Medieval literature

    From the 11th century on, we find the first literary manifestations in vernacular or Romance languages.
  • Eastern schism
    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.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZlTMPlLxTk
  • Period: 1284 to 1344

    Art in the Middle Age

    Simone Martini was an artist of gothic art.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE_fsr2qRaE
  • 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.

  • The fall of Byzantine empire
    1453

    The fall of Byzantine empire

    The Byzantine empire fell, and the Modern period starts.
  • End of the Middle Ages
    1492

    End of the Middle Ages

    The discovery of America.
  • Charles VIII of France invades Italy
    1494

    Charles VIII of France invades Italy

  • Music in the Renaissance
    1498

    Music in the Renaissance

    Johannes Ockeghem – Intemerata Dei Mater.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAelMkkyXak
  • David of michelangelo
    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

    Beginning of the Baroque period

  • Death of Elizabeth I

    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.

    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

    Four seasons of Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBIR30ks64
  • Beginning of the classical period

    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

    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

    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

    End of the Modern period

    French revolution marks the end of Modern period
  • 1.Ave Verum Corpus, Kv. 618

    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.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKU9xBlBLA
  • Napoleon enthroned

    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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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

    End of the Romantic period

  • 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 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.

    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

    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

    End of the 20th century

    The 20th century ends