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476
Fall of Rome
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Period: 476 to 1420
Middle Ages/ Medieval Period
Music was used extensively in the early church. Melody is used primarily to convey words, most composers were poets. -
Period: 900 to 1000
Organum
c.900 CE = First described
1000 CE = Notated -
Period: 991 to 1033
Guido of Arezzo
Music Theorist invented the staff and suggested a red line is F and yellow line is C. -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard Von Bingen
1st female composer wrote about her dreams. Her music had poetic texts, wider leaps, more expressive songs. She was given to God for being the 10th child of her family. -
Period: 1150 to 1201
Leonin
First to write down Polyphoni music and compiled "The big book of Organu" -
1200
Perotin
expanded "The big book of Organu" -
Period: 1291 to 1361
Philippe de Vitry
First composer of the Ars Nova, french composer, and bishop. established a new tradition of mensural notation -
Period: 1300 to 1350
Arvs Nova
New Art. Composers and theorists began to speak about this "new art" which was rhythmic polyphony in motets -
Period: 1300 to 1390
The Trecento in Italy
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1322
Ars nova notandi
The new art of notes -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
155 works, virtuoso organist, BLIND from an early age. By far the most famous Italian composer of the 14th century -
1340
The Black Death
The Bubonic plague killed over 75 million people. -
Period: 1386 to 1466
Donatello
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Guillaume Dufay
First Renaissance Composer -
Period: 1420 to 1497
Johannes Ockeghem
Very respected and prolific; also a low bass and Renaissance composer -
Period: 1435 to 1511
Johannes Tinetoris
created the first dictionary for music terms, "Diffinitorum Music". Used more 3rds and 6ths in his harmonies. -
Period: 1444 to 1510
Sandro Botticelli
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Heinrich Issac
Prolific German composer, (Renaissance composer) -
Period: 1450 to 1521
Josquin des Prez
Most revered Renaissance composer, from Northern France, served in the Italian courts. As Masestro di cappella to Duke Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara in Italy 1503. -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vnici
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1483 to 1520
Raphael
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Adrian Willaert
Father of text expression, Renaissance composer -
Period: 1505 to
Thomas Tallis
Important English Composer (Renaissance), 30 motets, wrote both for the Latin and the reformed English liturgies. English composer who wrote a 40- voice part motet. -
1514
Madonna della Tenda
Raphael's art -
Period: 1521 to
Philipp de Monte
Most prolific composer of the Renaissance -
Period: 1525 to
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Awarded the most famous composer in the Renaissance -
Period: 1528 to
Paolo Veronese
Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1543 to
Orlando di Lasso
Ranks in importance with Josquin and Palestrina,over 2000 compositions in all languages. -
Period: 1547 to
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Carris on Palestrina's style while working in Spain, Spanish sacred music composer. the greatest Spanish composer in the Renaissance. -
1562
Pope Marcellus Mass
written in a high Renaissance style by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
Lived in early Baroque. Many Renaissance-style music was composed for his plays. -
1580
The Allegory of Wisdom and Strength
Paolo Veronese painting was almost in a Baroque style