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476
The Fall of Rome
The start of the Medieval Era
Slow changes in life, culture, and dissemination of knowledge -
Period: 476 to 1435
The Middle Ages
The views of music: Divine (Music came from God) and Cosmic (music was created by the movements of the stars and planets -
Period: 476 to 1450
Medieval Period
"Dark Age", -
Period: 715 to 731
Pope Gregory
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800
Polyphony and Notation began to emerge
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Period: 850 to 1150
Early Polyphony
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Period: 850 to 1150
Romanesque Era
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Period: 991 to 1033
Guido d'Arezzo
-Diastematic Notation
-Credited with inventing the staff -
1000
Music staff invented
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Period: 1000 to 1100
First Crusade
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildgard Von Bingen
-Founder and abess of the convent at Reperburgs, Germany
- Famous for her prophetic power and revelations
-Wrote liturgical dramas and religious poetry -
Period: 1150 to 1450
Gothic Period
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Period: 1150 to 1201
Leonin
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Period: 1155 to 1207
Raimbout de Vaqueiras
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Period: 1160 to 1230
Perotin
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1290
The Medieval Motet
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Period: 1291 to 1361
Philippe de Virty
-The first composer in Ars Nova (France) -
Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
Most famous composer and poet of that time -
Period: 1320 to 1400
Motet Rhythm became complex
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1322
Treatise Ars Nova notandi the new art of note
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Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
-Music Theorist, composer, and poet
-Most famous Italin composer of the 14th Century -
Period: 1347 to 1352
The Bubonic Plauge
Known as the "Black Death" -
Period: 1386 to 1466
Donatello
-Famous Italian Artist -
Period: 1390 to 1453
John Dunstable
-English but wrote musical style Europe -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Guillaume Dufay
-First Renaissance Composer -
Period: 1420 to 1497
Johannes Ockghem
-Very respected and prolific -
Period: 1430 to
Renaissance Rebirth
Captured the Arts, Science and Religion -
Period: 1435 to 1511
Johannes Tinctoris
-Composer and Music Theorist -
Period: 1444 to 1510
Sandro Botticelli
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Period: 1450 to 1521
Josquin des Perez
-Most revered Renaissance Composer -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Heinrich Isaac
-Prorific German Composer -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
-Italian Polymath -
1453
Fall of Constantinople
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Period: 1466 to 1536
Erasmus
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Period: 1475 to 1564
Mycheangelo
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Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo
-Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet -
Period: 1483 to 1520
Raphael
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Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
German Religious reformer -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Adrian Willaert
-Father of text expression -
Period: 1500 to 1539
Frottola
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Period: 1505 to
Thomas Tallis
-Important English Composer -
Period: 1507 to 1568
Jacques Arcadelt
One of the earliest Italian Madrigal Composers -
1517
Protastent Reformation
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Period: 1521 to
Phillip de Mente
-Most prolific composer of the Renaissance -
Period: 1525 to
Palestrina
-The most famous composer of the Renaissance -
1530
Italian Madrigal
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Period: 1530 to
Madrigals
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Period: 1532 to
Orlando de Lasso
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Period: 1543 to
William Byrd
-Important Catholic English Composer -
Period: 1545 to 1563
The Cauncil of Trent
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Period: 1548 to
Tomas Luis de Victoria
-Carries on Palestrinas style while working in Spain -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrielli
-Leading composer of intrumental ensemble music -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespear
-Famous English playwright
-Helived into the esarly Baroque but many Renaissance Style songs were composers -
Period: 1564 to
Galileo
-Famous Scientist -
Period: 1570 to
John Farmer
-English composer, organist