Medieval Timeline

  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne's Rule as Holy Roman Emperor

    Charlemagne was an ally to the church and supported its music.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Set of rules used for polyphony.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

  • Period: 1220 to 1350

    Troubadours

  • 1280

    Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Codified six rhythmic modes.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Removal of rigid rhythmic modes.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Fransesco Landini

  • 1439

    Gutenburg Printing Press

  • 1515

    Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua

  • 1527

    Martin Luther's ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle donne - Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata Pian'e Forte - Giovanni Gabrieli

    This piece was composed in Venice and was the first piece to specify instrumentation as well as the first specifically written for brass instruments.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Period: to

    Handel

  • Vivaldi's L'estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

  • The Well Tempered Clavier Volume 1

  • Period: to

    Pre-Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    W.A. Mozart

  • Period: to

    Beethoven Lifespan

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as Director of Concert des Amateurs

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets

  • Don Giovanni

  • Period: to

    Haydn's London Symphonies

  • Period: to

    Schubert Lifespan

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 (composed 1786)

  • Period: to

    Beethoven's 5th Symphony

  • Schubert's Erlkonig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (premiere)

  • Paganini's 24 Caprices

  • Period: to

    Beethoven's 9th Symphony

  • Schubert's Unfinished Symphony (8th)

  • Symphonie Fantastique

  • Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Period: to

    Schumann Carnaval

  • Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann"Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Bartholdy - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

  • Verdi 's La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (premiere)

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov (premiere)

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak's Symphony No.9 “New World"

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine