timeline music

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  • 100 BCE

    Epitafio de seikilos

    Epitafio de seikilos
    A certain Seikilos of Tralles lived back in the 1st century AD. with his wife Euterpe in what is now Aydin, a prosperous town east of Ephesus, one of the so-called twelve Ionian cities, next to the Aegean Sea in the Anatolian peninsula or Asia Minor (currently belonging to Turkey).
    Seikilos, of wealthy class and important heritage, was a cultured person, having among his hobbies the arts, especially music, so important for the education of every citizen in Greece at that time.
  • Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1492

    Edad media

  • 991

    Guiro d'arezzo

    Guiro d'arezzo
    Perfeccionó la escritura musical con la incorporación del tetragrama, que era una pausa musical de cuatro líneas horizontales precursora del pentagrama con la que se fijaban con mayor precisión las alturas del sonido, sistema parecido al actual, así como la notación neumática.
  • 1050

    Guido d'arezzo

    Guido d'arezzo
    Died
  • 1150

    Leonín

    Leonín
    Léonin o Magister Leoninus (fl. 1150–1201) es, junto con Perotín, el primer compositor conocido de organum polifónico, relacionado con la Escuela de Notre Dame. Allelulia Pascha nostrum: canto gregoriano y, basado en él, organum de Léonin. j
  • 1160

    Perotín

    Perotín
    Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame de Paris, in which the polyphonic style began to take shape. He revised the Grand livre d'organum (in Latin Magnus liber organi or Magnus liber, attributed to Leonín) between 1180 and 1190.
  • 1200

    Canto gregoriano

    Canto gregoriano
    The Gregorian was the liturgical chant of the church of Rome, influenced by the Gallican in the second half of the 8th century, whose extension to the entire West took place at the same time as that of the Latin rite itself, of which it was the acoustic expression
  • 1201

    Leonín

    Leonín
    Died
  • 1210

    Perotín

    Perotín
    Died
  • 1250

    Ars antiqua

    Ars antiqua
    It is a song for two or three voices of a contrapuntal nature. It has the peculiarity that each independent voice has a different text and a different rhythm, making it a very lively and contrasting music.
  • 1350

    Ars nova

    Ars nova
    Ars Nova literally means New Art, and is named after Philippe de Vitry's treatise, Ars Nova (French poet and composer) which gave its name to the music of the 14th century.