History of Music KSU Timeline

By igiorda1
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Innovations included: development of the 4 line staff, relative pitch, sight-singing syllables, and accidentals
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    1098-1179
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    "New Art" replaced the old method of musical notation by laying the groundwork for modern notation, specifically meter signature.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria ... virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale: Ein Feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress..)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal: Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

    When the Council of Trent threatened to ban polyphony from the Catholic Church, Palestrina's polyphony had so much clarity in its words, that it singlehandedly saved polyphony in sacred music.
  • 1572

    Victoria's Missa O Magnum Mysterium

  • Gabrieli's Sonata: Pian E Forte

    Location: St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy
    This piece was one of the firsts to specify which instrument played on which part and the first that designated dynamics.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    It was the most influential publication of the 18th century and kicked off the popularity of the Italian Concerto.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    This composition represented the new ability to play music in all keys by using an instrument tuned with near-equal temperament.

  • Rameau's Traité de L’Harmonie

    It was the most influential of all theoretical works. It included notions such as consonance vs. dissonance, terms of tonic, subdominant, and dominant, V7 to I as the strongest progression, and much more.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    (dates reflect time as the Director of Concerts des Amateurs) He was known as the "Black Mozart" and was one of France's best composers and violinists.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C Minor

    premiere date

  • Schubert's Erlkönig

    composition date

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    premiere date

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op. 1

    first complete publication

  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

    composition date
  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin's Mazurkas Op.7

    composition date range

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Das Jahr

    composition date

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

    composition of the original piano version

  • Bizet's Carmen

    premiere date

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelunge

    the premiere of the whole cycle

  • Brahms' 4th Symphony

    premiere date

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 1

    premiere date

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

    Premiere

  • Manuel de Falla's Homenaje

  • George and Ira Gershwin's “I Got Rhythm"

  • Margaret Bonds: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Dimitri Shostakovich's Symphony No.5

    premiere

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine