TIME LINE MUSICA

  • Epitafio de Seikilos
    150 BCE

    Epitafio de Seikilos

    It is the oldest complete musical composition in history.
  • Canto Gregoriano
    Feb 15, 605

    Canto Gregoriano

    Plainchant, monodic, a cappella style of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Guido d'Arezzo
    Jun 15, 1000

    Guido d'Arezzo

    He was an Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist who is one of the central figures in medieval music.
  • Bernart de Ventadorn
    Jun 15, 1100

    Bernart de Ventadorn

    Composer and poet of the 12th century, considered one of the most important and well-known of the time, especially for his trobar leu style.
  • Hildegard von Bingen
    Jun 15, 1120

    Hildegard von Bingen

    She was a holy Benedictine abbess, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, and physician in the Middle Ages.
  • Perotin
    Jun 15, 1200

    Perotin

    He was a French medieval composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160.
  • Leonin
    Jun 15, 1200

    Leonin

    With Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum.
  • Ars Antiqua
    Jun 15, 1250

    Ars Antiqua

    It is a period of European polyphonic music that spans approximately from the year 1170 to 1310.
  • Alfonso X El Sabio
    Jun 15, 1260

    Alfonso X El Sabio

    He was the king of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284.
  • Ars Nova
    Jun 15, 1360

    Ars Nova

    It was a musical style and a historical era in music that emerged in France in the 14th century.
  • Guillaume de Machaut
    Jun 15, 1370

    Guillaume de Machaut

    He was a French composer and poet of the Middle Ages, a central figure of the musical movement known as Ars Nova.
  • Franceso Landini
    Jun 15, 1370

    Franceso Landini

    Francesco Landini was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker, and astrologer. He was one of Italy's most famous composers.
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Jun 15, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg

    He was a 15th-century German goldsmith and businessman, recognized for inventing the modern movable type printing press,
  • Antonio de Cabezón
    Jun 15, 1500

    Antonio de Cabezón

    Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    Jun 15, 1500

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the Roman School
  • Orlando di Lasso
    Jun 15, 1520

    Orlando di Lasso

    He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance