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Coleman Hand - Music History Timeline

By cfhand128
  • Period: 476 to 1400

    Medieval Period

    The Medieval Period, also commonly known as the Middle Ages, is the period in Europe following the fall of Western Rome and preceding the Renaissance. It is during this time that the sacred plainchant used in the Church evolved into Gregorian chant, and eventually into organum and motets. In the secular world, troubadours/trouvères and jongleurs were popular. The latter Medieval period saw the development of the French ars nova, the music of the Italian trecento, and English polyphony.
  • 1026

    Guido d'Arezzo, "Micrologus"

    Guido d'Arezzo, "Micrologus"
    Guido's works served to codify the principles of Gregorian chant. He is also credited with inventing solfège.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Hildegard is noted for being the most prolific medieval European composer. She was known for her prophecies regarding important royal and religious figures. She set her poetry to original plainchant compositions.
  • 1320

    Philippe de Vitry, "Ars Nova Treatise"

    Philippe de Vitry, "Ars Nova Treatise"
    This is known as the defining work of the French ars nova style, a period of development and innovation, as well as the introduction of isorhythm.
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance Period

    The Renaissance was a period of renewed cultural, philosophical, and academic development following the socioeconomic turbulence of the late Middle Ages. This period saw further developments in polyphony, the growing prominence of instrumental music, the development of national and vernacular styles, and a bifurcation in sacred music practice corresponding with the Reformation and Counter-reformation.
  • 1529

    Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"

    Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
    Martin Luther, founder of Lutheranism and central figure of the Protestant Reformation, was also a composer. "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott," a monophonic chorale typical of the Lutheran tradition, was the most famous of his works.
  • 1538

    Jacob Arcadelt, "Il Bianco e dolce cigno"

    Jacob Arcadelt, "Il Bianco e dolce cigno"
    This is a madrigal by Franco-Flemish composer Jacob Arcadelt. The text, carefully colored and accentuated by the music, explores death as a metaphor for sensual euphoria. Madrigals of this time were settings of high poetry that were easily sightread and written for the purposes of amateur performance.
  • 1567

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "Pope Marcellus Mass"

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "Pope Marcellus Mass"
    This mass is credited with convincing the Council of Trent that polyphony and counterpoint were not necessarily at odds with the intelligibility of text in sacred works. The Pope Marcellus Mass exemplifies Palestrina's style of dissonance and resolution, as well as melodic conventions like the "Palestrina arch." Palestrina's works would lay the foundation for the whole future of Western music theory.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria, "Missa 'O Magnum Mysterium'"

    Tomás Luis de Victoria, "Missa 'O Magnum Mysterium'"
    This imitative mass, or parody mass, was based on one of Victoria's previous motets. It artfully executes Palestrina-style counterpoint, while being more daring with chromaticism.
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo"

    Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo"

  • First Public Concerts in England

    First Public Concerts in England
  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico

    Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico
    This was the first printed set of Vivaldi concerti.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
    The Traite de l'harmonie is a central document in the development of common-practice music theory.

  • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1
    Using equal temperament, Bach wrote preludes and fugues in all 24 keys.
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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, being of mixed French and Saint-Domingue race, was a well-respected and pioneering figure in the music scene of the French court.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition original Piano version

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere date)

  • Georges Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Wagner Ring Cycle Full Premiere

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4 Premiere

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1 Premiere

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

  • Dvorak "From The New World"

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuor pour le Fin du Temps"

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgard Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children"

  • John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"