Timeline 1: The Medieval Era (476-1430) and The Renaissance Era (1430-1600)

By Daveed99
  • 476

    Fall of Rome

  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Medieval Genres

    Secular, ballads, lais, rondeaux, virelais, madrigals, and chant
  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Medieval Stylistic Traits

    Purely functional music for specific services or dances or for entertainment
    Melodies confined to small rangele
    Steady and regular rhythms
    Harmonies are not yet established technically
    Lots of parallel 4ths, 5ths, and octaves
    Monophonic
    Text and poetic form determined musical structure
  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Invention of notations for pitch and rhythm

    Pitch notation came before rhythm
  • Period: 481 to 524

    Boethius

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Arrezzo

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 995 to 1050

    Wipo

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1071 to 1126

    William IX

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Bingen

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1130 to 1200

    Ventadorn

    Medieval composer;
    ca. 1130/40 - ca. 1190/1200
  • Period: 1135 to 1201

    Leonin

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1150 to 1200

    Daniel

    Medieval composer; b. ca. 1150/60
  • Period: 1155 to 1200

    Nesle

    Medieval composer; b. ca. 1155/60
  • Period: 1160 to 1213

    Brule

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1170 to 1230

    Vogelweide

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1180 to 1238

    Perotin

    Medieval composer; Flourished at this time
  • Period: 1180 to 1278

    Cardenal

    Medieval composer; ca. 1180 - ca. 1278
  • Period: 1183 to 1205

    Vidal

    Medieval composer; Flourished at this time
  • Period: 1190 to 1236

    Reuental

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1212 to 1212

    Dia

    Medieval composer;
    Birth year unknown;
    d. ca. 1212
  • Period: 1213 to 1239

    D'arras

    Medieval composer; Flourished at this time
  • Period: 1221 to 1284

    Alfonso X

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1230 to 1300

    Riquier

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1245 to 1288

    Halle

    Medieval composer; ca. 1245/50 - ca. 1285/88
  • 1290

    Invention of eyeglasses

    Late 13th century
  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Vitry

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Machaut

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1300 to 1350

    Ars nova in France

  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    Trecento in Italy

  • Period: 1320 to 1363

    Firenze

    Medieval composer; ca. 1320/25 - ca. 1362/63
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Landini

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • Period: 1340 to 1386

    Bologna

    Medieval composer; Flourished at this time
  • Period: 1376 to 1445

    Wolkenstein

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    Dunstaple

    Medieval composer
  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    DuFay

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1400 to 1430

    Cordier

    Medieval composer; fl. early 1400's
  • Period: 1400 to 1460

    Binchois

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1410 to 1497

    Ockeghem

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance Genres

    Ballet, balletti, chant, masses, motets, hymns, secular, and sacred
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance Stylistic Traits

    Top voice usually sang melody
    Relatively simple rhythm
    Progressions of 3rds & 6ths
    Dissonance discouraged
    Tonal modality
    Homorhythm
    Counterpoint
    Forms: cantus firmus, poetic strophic, binary, madrigals
    Purpose shifted from function to beauty
  • Period: 1430 to

    Invention of new tuning systems

  • Period: 1445 to 1518

    Compere

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1446 to 1506

    Agricola

    Renaissance composer
  • 1450

    Invention of the printing press

  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Isaac

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Prez

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1450/55
  • Period: 1452 to 1518

    De La Rue

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1457 to 1505

    Obrecht

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1460 to 1513

    Brumel

    Renaissance composer; d. ca. 1512/13
  • Period: 1465 to 1525

    Cara

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1466 to 1539

    Petrucci

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1470 to 1534

    Tromboncino

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Luther

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1485 to 1558

    Janequin

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1490 to 1545

    Taverner

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Sermisy

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Willaert

    Renaissance composer
  • 1492

    Columbus "discovered" the New World

  • Period: 1494 to 1576

    Sachs

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1500 to 1553

    Morales

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1507 to 1568

    Arcadelt

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1515 to 1565

    Rore

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1517 to

    Zarlino

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1521 to

    Monte

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1525/26
  • Period: 1532 to

    Lasso

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1532 to

    Gabrieli

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1532/35
  • Period: 1534 to

    Bardi

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1535 to

    Wert

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1535 to

    Ingegneri

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1536 to

    Striggio

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1536/37
  • Period: 1540 to

    Byrd

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1545 to

    Luzzaschi

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1548 to

    Victoria

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1553 to

    Marenzio

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1553/54
  • Period: 1554 to

    Gastoldi

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1557 to

    Morley

    Renaissance composer; b. ca. 1557/58
  • Period: 1559 to

    Beaulieu

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1560 to

    Nanino

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1561 to

    Gesualdo

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1562 to

    Sweelinck

    Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1567 to

    Monteverdi

    Renaissance composer
  • 1570

    First modern atlas published

  • Period: 1570 to

    Farmer

    Renaissance composer; fl. 1591-1601
  • Period: 1571 to

    Salmon

    Renaissance composer; Flourished at this time
  • Period: 1576 to

    Weelkes

    Renaissance composer