The Renaissance (476-1600)

By Cadence Jimenez
  • 476

    fall of Rome

    start of the medieval Era
  • 800

    Polyphony & Notation

  • 900

    Organum

    music started to be more than one part so it was two sung parts in parallel 4ths or 5ths.
  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido dArezzo

    Credited with “inventing” the staff
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard Von Bingen

    famous for prophetic powers. She wrote liturgical dramas and religious poetry
  • Period: 1130 to 1190

    Bernart de Ventadorn

    Famous troubadour poet. his music survived more than anyone's else's in the 12th century
  • 1150

    Allelvia Ovirga mediatrix

    a piece by Hildigard from the morality play Orod Virtutum
  • Period: 1150 to 1201

    Leonin

    First composer of polyphonic music
  • Period: 1180 to 1238

    Perotin

    master of discant organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
  • 1190

    compass

    This invention made voyages of discovery possible.
  • 1200

    The Medieval Motet

    more text than chant, the rhythms were more complicated, and instruments were included.
  • Period: 1212 to 1200

    Comtessa Beatriz de Dia

    female troubadour with the only surviving melody known to be written by a female. no death date given so its somewhere in the 1200 range
  • 1242

    gunpowder introdused to Europe

    ended knighthood. the exact date Europe was introduced to gunpowder is debated upon and not full known. 1242 has a strong argument to when at least some knew about gunpowder in Europe.
  • Period: 1245 to 1285

    Adam de la Halle

    one of the most famous trouveres who wrote polyphony and studied in Paris.
  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Philippe de Vitry

    credited to be the one to "make a new art". he was a french composer who established a mensural notation.
  • 1300

    mechanical clocks

    first invented in 1300 but became widespread in the 15th century
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaune de Matchaut

    leading composer and poet of the Ars Nova
  • 1316

    ars nova

    new style in France. its super complex and dissonance of seconds and sevenths.
  • 1339

    first canon in europe

    not a set date since the definition of canon back then is not really known so they think this is the first use of a canon.
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable (Dunstaple)

    English composer who used thirds and sixths that led to our triadic music.
  • 1400

    Puisque M’Amour

    song written by Dunstable (most likely) for three voices. cat really pinpoint the date it was written its said to be written in the first half of the 15th century.
  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

    Wrote the first dictionary of musical terms. he was a composer and a music theorist.
  • 1440

    Printing Press

    the printing press was a big help in creating vernacular literature available to the wider public.
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    famous painter. he painted the Mona Lisa.
  • 1475

    Diffinitorum musices

    first dictionary of musical terms.
  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Tallis

    English composer who wrote a 40-voice part motet
  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

    The most famous composer from the Renaissance.
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare

    famous play writer who regularly got composers to write music for his plays.