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Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Ages
It´s a period that goes from the year 476 (the fall of the Occidental Roman Empire), to the year 1492 (the discovery of America) -
Period: 800 to 100
Gregorian Chant
Sacred song in latin pf the Roman Catholic Church -
Period: 991 to 1050
Guido D´Arezzo
He established the name of each note of the scale. -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard Von Bingen
She was a holy Benedictine abbess and German polymath, active as a composer, writer, etcetera. -
Period: 1100 to 1200
Ars Antiqua
It refers to the music of Europe from the late Middle Ages. -
Period: 1135 to 1194
Bernart de Ventadorn
He was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. -
Period: 1150 to 1201
Leonin
He is, along with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum. -
Period: 1160 to 1230
Perotin
He was a medieval French composer considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame of Paris. -
Period: Nov 23, 1221 to Apr 4, 1284
Alfonso X El Sabio
He was the king of the Crown of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284. -
Period: 1300 to 1500
Ars Nova
It designates the musical production, both French and Italian, after the last works of the ars antiqua until the predominance of the Burgundian school. -
Period: 1300 to Apr 13, 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
He was a medieval French clergyman, poet and composer. -
Period: 1325 to Sep 2, 1397
Francesco Landini
He was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker and astrologer. -
Period: 1400 to Feb 3, 1468
Johannes Gutenberg
He was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1450. -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
Broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Period: Jul 12, 1468 to 1529
Juan del Encina
He was a poet, musician and author of plays from the Spanish Renaissance during the time of the Catholic Monarchs. -
Period: Nov 10, 1483 to Feb 18, 1546
Martín Lutero
He was an Augustinian Catholic theologian, philosopher and friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine called Lutheranism. -
Period: 1500 to 1553
Cristóbal de Morales
He was a Spanish Catholic priest and chapelmaster, being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonist school. -
Period: Mar 30, 1510 to Mar 26, 1566
Antonio de Cabezón
He was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. -
Period: Feb 3, 1525 to
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Period: 1532 to
Orlando di Lasso
He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. -
Period: 1533 to
Andrea Gabrieli
He was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Also, he was the uncle of perhaps the most famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, -
Period: 1544 to
Maddalena Casulana
She was an Italian composer, lute player and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first woman composer to have an entire exclusive volume of her music printed and published in the history of Western music. -
Period: 1548 to
Tomás Luis de Victoria
He was a Catholic priest, chapelmaster and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time. -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
He was a Catholic priest, chapelmaster and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time. -
Period: Mar 30, 1566 to
Carlo Gesualdo
He was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures of late Renaissance music with intensely expressive madrigals -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
He was an Italian composer, violagamba player, singer, choir director and priest. -
Period: to
Baroque
It was a period of history in Western culture originated by a new way of conceiving art and which, starting from different historical-cultural contexts, produced works in numerous artistic fields: literature, architecture, etcetera -
Period: to
Giacomo Carissimi
He was one of the most eminent Italian composers of the early Baroque and one of the main representatives of the Roman School. -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
She was an Italian Baroque singer and songwriter. -
Period: to
Antonio Stradivari
He was the most prominent Italian luthier. The Latin form of his surname, Stradivarius, is used to refer to his instruments. -
Period: to
Henry Purcel
He was an English Baroque composer, who was considered one of the best English composers of all time. -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi
He was a Venetian Baroque composer, violinist, printer, teacher and Catholic priest. -
Period: to
George Philipp Telemann
He was a German baroque composer, although his work also had characteristics of early classicism. -
Period: to
Georg Friedrich Händel
He was a German composer, later naturalized English, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially the baroque. -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
He was a German composer, musician, conductor, chapelmaster, singer and teacher of the Baroque period.