MAIN HISTORiCAL FACTS

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  • 476

    Fall of the Western roman Empire (Renaissance)

    Fall of the Western roman Empire (Renaissance)
    This fact marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the Byzantine eastern empire survives until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
  • 476

    The fall of Western Roman Empire

    The fall of Western Roman Empire
    It's beginning is in the year 476, the year of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and its end in 1492, the year in which Columbus arrived in America.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Encompassed the sacred and secular music

    Secular music, broadly speaking, is any music that is not religious in nature. The term ''secular'' comes from the Latin word saeculum, and this was used in the early Christian church to mean ''the world,'' as opposed to ''the Church.'
  • 590

    Gregory the Great becomes Pope: 590

    Gregory the Great becomes Pope: 590
    Gregory left Constantinople for Rome in 585, returning to his monastery on the Caelian Hill. Gregory was elected by acclamation to succeed Pelagius II in 590, when the latter died of the plague spreading through the city.
  • 800

    Empire of Charlemagne

    Move to anthropocentrism. Emergence of national monarchies in the face of the fragmentation of the Empire of Charlemagne. Emergence of national monarchies in the face of the fragmentation of the Empire of Charlemagne.
  • Period: 1088 to 1099

    Urbano III

    He only lasted 10 years
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Santa Hildegarda de Bingen

    Saint Hildegard of Bingen, belonging to the Order of Saint Benedict, was a German saint, composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, polymath, abbess, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess.
  • 1400

    Music (Renaissance)

    Music (Renaissance)
    The prototype of a Renaissance musical work is a vocal piece with a polyphonic texture, frequently imitative, written for between three and six voices of a 'cantabile' nature; each melodic line or voice could be interpreted interchangeably with real voices or with instruments.
  • 1400

    Music (Renaissance)

    Music (Renaissance)
    The prototype of a Renaissance musical work is a vocal piece with a polyphonic texture, frequently imitative, written for between three and six voices of a 'cantabile' nature; each melodic line or voice could be interpreted interchangeably with real voices or with instruments.
  • 1450

    Humanism

    Humanism
    Was a philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement, which began in the fourteenth century in Italy, especially in the cities of the center and north of the peninsula and spread throughout the rest of Europe.
  • 1453

    Fall of constantinople

    Fall of constantinople
    El Renacimiento comenzó a finales del siglo XIII, primero en el ámbito literario y de la pintura, y se desarrolló completamente del siglo XIV al XVI, extendiéndose a múltiples artes y también a la ciencia. Su periodización depende del país, llegando hasta principios del siglo XVII en algunos de ellos.
  • 1492

    End of the Middle Ages

    End of the Middle Ages
    It ended in 1492, the year in which Columbus arrived in America.

  • End of Music (Renaissance)

    End of Music (Renaissance)
    Italy becomes the most important country musically speaking, the most interesting innovations will come within secular music; however, the two most prominent figures in this period will be dedicated to religious music, and they are Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina and the Spanish Tomás Luis de Victoria.