History of Music I Timeline

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 768 to 814

    Charlemagne

    Rules Holy Roman Empire for about 40 years
    Orders Roman rite to be used throughout HRE
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Introduction to four-line staff, relative pitch, and sightsinging: revolutionizes music pedagogy and makes music learning less dependent on rote memorization
  • Period: 1050 to 1300

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1163 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

    Leonin 1163-1190
    Perotin 1190-1225
  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    German intellect who came to Paris to teach arouind 1280
    Innovation of "meausred music": breve becomes building block of rhythm, different rhythms result
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    "New Art" versus the older way/style (Ars antiqua)
    Duple meter introduced, polyphonic secular art song develops
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1450

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1515

    Josquin’s "Missa Pangue Lingua"

  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s "Ein feste burg"

  • 1538

    Arcadelt "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

  • 1567

    Palestrina "Pope Marcellus Mass"

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Ferrara

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Music in Venice
    Giovanni Gabrieli
    First piece to (2) specify instruments and to (2) include dynamics
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

  • First public concerts in England

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    J.S. Bach

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    G.F. Handel

  • Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi, L’Estro Armonico

    Written on commission and Vivaldi earned money through publications which showed the popularity of concertos

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1

    Best known works for keyboard; explored possibilities of playing in all keys on an instrument tuned in near-equal temperament
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    Pre Classical Period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel’s Messiah

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    W.A. Mozart

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    Viennese Classical Period

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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as Director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's Op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Brandenburg Concertos