Middle Ages- Renaissance (476-1600)

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  • 476

    Fall of Rome

  • Period: 476 to 1420

    Medieval Period

    Music for the purpose of religion, courting, weddings civic ceremonies, dancing, and entertaining. Mostly monophonic style that used instruments.
  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido of Arezzo

    A music theorist who invented a system of precise pitch notation using lines and spaces. Along with that he also created the sight singing method we use today (do re mi fa sol la ti do).
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen

    Composer of 1st morality play. Also known as the Sybil of the Rhine as well as a composer, and famous prophet.
  • Period: 1130 to 1200

    Bernart de Ventadorn

    A famous troubadour poet. Has the largest amount of surviving music of the 12th century.
  • Period: 1135 to 1201

    Leoninus

    Master of organum purum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
  • Period: 1160 to 1212

    Comtessa Beatriz de Dia

    A famous female troubadour who holds the only surviving melody from a female troubadour.
  • Period: 1170 to 1230

    Walther von der Vogelwide

    A famous poet and Minnesinger who worked for the Viennese court. Wrote the earliest Minnesinger melody.
  • Period: 1213 to 1239

    Moniot d'Arras

    Trouvere who wrote in several genres and forms.
  • Period: 1245 to 1285

    Adam de la Halle

    One of the last trouveres, He wrote polyphony and studied in Paris.
  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Philippe de Vitry

    Credited for calling the name Ars Nova.
  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Philippe de Vitry

    Known as the inventor of new art to most. He was a composer, poet, theorist, and bishop.
  • Period: 1300 to 1350

    Ars Nova/ Trecento

    Brought on by a new style in France and Italy.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

    The leading composer and poet of Ars Nova. Had many important innovations that revolutionized music.
  • 1316

    Roman de Fawvel

    A poem in 1316 by Gervais du Bus which inspired over 100 pieces of music.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

    Known for his cadences and for being a virtuoso organist despite being blind from an early age. He also made instruments.
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstaple

    A leading English composer which created a new style of 3rds and 6ths that became the Renaissance style. Many of his works were destroyed during the English Reformation.
  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Dufay

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Du Fay

    Franco-Flemish composer who is known as the earliest renaissance composer through using medieval cadences.
  • Period: 1400 to 1460

    Gilles Binchois

  • Period: 1410 to 1490

    Johannes Ockgehen

    Bass Singer who served 3 Kings. Was an important teacher who didn't use imitation in his music.
  • Period: 1430 to

    The Renaissance

  • May 30, 1431

    Joan of Arc is Executed

    Burned on the steak by a tribunal in Rouen, France.
  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

    Music Theorist that published Liber de arte contrapuncti.
  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin des Prez

    Martain Luther called him "The best composer of our time" who was to have no peer in music.
  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Heinrich Isaac

    Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music. Was a court composer for Maximilian the 1st of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Period: 1452 to 1518

    Pierre de la Rue

    Leading composer in Burgundian court. Loved to use cannon in most of his works.
  • 1453

    End of the 100 years war

  • May 29, 1453

    Constantinople falls

    Constantinople's capital falls to the Byzatine Empire. Causes major conflicts in central Europe.
  • Period: Apr 22, 1455 to Aug 22, 1485

    War of the Roses

  • Period: 1457 to 1505

    Jacob Obrecht

    Made important contributions to largescale forms and their unity. Very important composer to Europe and is Dutch.
  • Jun 17, 1462

    Vlad the Impaler almost assassinated

  • Period: 1466 to 1539

    Ottavinano Petrucci

    The 1st to print and publish music. This preserved renaissance music for today.
  • 1477

    Rebirth of art music

    Johan Tinctoris(1435-1511) says in his Liber de arte contrapuncti that there is a rebirth of art music.
  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

    German theologist and composer. Also founded the Lutheran Church.
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Adrian Willaert

    A very strong advocate of textual expression. Served as an Italian composer and teacher.
  • Jan 2, 1492

    Completion of the Reconquista

    Muslims banished from what is seen as Christian land.
  • Apr 17, 1492

    Chirstopher Columbus Contract

    Christopher Columbus signs contract with the Spanish to find "Indies" also known as India.
  • Jan 3, 1496

    Leonardo da Vinci tests Flight

    The test fails and he swears off flight.
  • Period: 1500 to 1510

    Emergence of Dynamics

  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Tallis

    Composed a motet for 40 voices.
  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Talis

    An English organist who taught Byrd and wrote for Latin and English liturgies.
  • Jul 2, 1505

    Protestantism founded

    Martin Luther leaves the church to establish Protestantism.
  • Period: 1507 to 1568

    Jacques Arcadelt

    A Dutch composer who worked in Rome and Paris. He is famous for his early madrigals and his 7 voice masses.
  • Nov 1, 1512

    Sistine Chapel Painting

    Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting in the Vatican is put on display.
  • Period: 1515 to 1565

    Cipriano de Rore

    Flemish composer who was associated with Willaert.
  • Period: 1521 to

    Philippe de Monte

    Worked in Viennese and Prague Courts. A very religious Franco-Flemish composer who used poly and homophony. Known as one of the most prolific composers in the renaissance.
  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    An icon of the Renaissance and future music using the Roman style.
  • Period: 1532 to

    Orlando di Lasso

    Did compositions in all languages for a price.
  • Period: 1534 to

    Andrea Gabrieli

    A Itialian organist, composer, teacher, and uncle to Giovanni.
  • Period: 1534 to

    Count Giovanni Bardi

    Leader of the Florentine Camerata in 1570-1590. Also a critic, composer, playwright, and composer
  • Period: 1535 to

    Giaches de Wert

    Pupil of de Rore and served the dukes of Mantua and Parma. Used text declamation.
  • Jan 15, 1535

    Church of England

    Henry the VIII declares himself head of the church of England.
  • 1540

    Catholic Orders

    Catholic church asks composers to stop writing secular tunes in sacred music.
  • Period: 1540 to

    William Byrd

    An English composer who wrote for Catholic and Protestant. Known as the greatest english composer of his time.
  • Feb 23, 1540

    Coronado's Expadition

  • Period: 1548 to

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    A Spanish composer that brought the Roman style to Spain. Composed mostly sacred music and known as the greatest Spanish composer in the renaissance.
  • Period: 1553 to

    Luca Marenzio

    The leading composer of madrigal music. Served for Rome, Ferrara, Florence, and Warsaw.
  • Period: 1557 to

    Thomas Morley

    An English composer who contributed to the development of madrigal music. Very important for music publication and printing.
  • Period: 1561 to

    Carlo Gesualdo

    Known for Chromaticism and being a leading composer in the style of the madrigal.
  • Period: 1561 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Started advance into more Early Baroque style.
  • Period: 1576 to

    Thomas Weelkes

    An English organist who had an excessive drinking problem.

  • France goes to war against Spain

  • Romeo and Juliet Finished

    Romeo and Juliet performed and published in 1597.