Timeline One: Medieval (476-1430) and Renaissance (1430-1600)

By victoriatonsfeldt
  • Period: 476 to 1420

    Stylistic Traits

    Music served specific purposes and functions, usually for services, dances, or entertainment
    Melodies tend to have a small range
    Steady and regular rhythms
    Many harmonies not yet established, but used 4ths, 5ths, and octaves
    Monophonic
    Textual and poetry forms determined how the music would be structured
  • Period: 476 to 1420

    Genres

    Secular, Ballads, Lais, Rondeaux, Virelais, Madrigals, Chant
  • Period: 481 to 524

    Boethius

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Arrezzo

  • Period: 995 to 1050

    Wipo

  • Period: 1071 to 1126

    William IX

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Bingen

  • Period: 1130 to 1190

    Ventadorn

  • Period: 1135 to 1201

    Leonin

  • Period: 1150 to 1200

    Daniel

  • Period: 1155 to 1200

    Nesle

  • Period: 1160 to 1213

    Brule

  • Period: 1170 to 1230

    Vogelwilde

  • Period: 1180 to 1238

    Perotin

  • Period: 1180 to 1278

    Cardenal

  • Period: 1183 to 1205

    Vidal

  • Period: 1190 to 1236

    Reuental

  • 1212

    Dia

  • Period: 1213 to 1239

    D'arras

  • Period: 1221 to 1284

    Alfonso X

  • Period: 1230 to 1300

    Riquier

  • Period: 1245 to 1285

    Halle

  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Vitry

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Machaut

  • Period: 1320 to 1362

    Firenze

  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Landini

  • Period: 1340 to 1386

    Bologna

  • Period: 1376 to 1445

    Wolkenstein

  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    Dunstaple

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    DuFay

    ca. 1397-1474
  • 1400

    Cordier

  • Period: 1400 to 1460

    Binchois