Music History Timeline Project - Laurenz Oriondo

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  • 500

    Medieval Period

    ca. 500 - 1450
  • 800

    Rule of Holy Emperor Charlemagne

    Charlemagne lived 768 - 814 and his rule began in 800. During his rule, he established 500 to 600 Gregorian tunes.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    ca. 900 Standardizes the use of polyphony in the church
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    ca. 1030 Established hexachord system
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    1098 - 1179
  • 1163

    Notre Dame School Polyphony

    1163 - 1225
  • 1170

    Troubadour and Trobairitz

    ca. 1170 - 1260
  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    ca. 1280
    Established mensural notation
  • 1300

    Guillaume de Machaut

    1300 - 1377
  • 1315

    Ars Nova Treatise

    1320 - 1375 Introduces the notation of time and prolation
  • 1325

    Francesco Landini

    1325 - 1397
  • 1450

    Gutenberg Printing Press

    ca. 1450 - 1454
  • 1450

    Renaissance

    1450 - 1600
  • 1515

    Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua

    1515
  • 1529

    Martin Luther’s Ein feste burg

    ca. 1529
  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

    ca. 1538
  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    ca. 1562
  • 1580

    Concerto delle Donne

    Ferrara, Italy, 1580 - 1597

  • Sonata pian’e forte

    Giovanni Gabrieli wrote this piece for St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice in 1597. This piece is important for two reasons: it was written for a specificities grouping of instruments and it features loud and soft dynamics.

  • Baroque

    1600-1750

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

    1607

  • First Public Concerts in England

    1670

  • JS Bach

    1685-1750

  • Handel

    1685 - 1759

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    ca. 1689

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    1711

  • Brandenburg Concertos

    1721

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    1722

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    1722

  • Pre Classical Period

    1730-1770

  • Franz Joseph Haydn

    1732-1809

  • Handel's Messiah

    1741

  • WA Mozart

    1756-1791

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

    1773

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

    1782

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23

    1786

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

    1787

  • Haydn's London Symphonies

    1791-1795

  • Viennese Classical Period

    1770-1800

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    ca. 1807-08
    Entire symphony constructed from four note motif.

  • Schubert Erlkönig

    1815
    Lied = high art poem set for voice and piano
    Schubert established piano as an equal partner to the voice

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Sivigliaz

    1816
    Patter Aria! Incredibly showy and used to depict characters of lower status.

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    1820
    Deemed as unplayable to many and dedicated to professional musicians. Still stands as virtuosic music to this day.

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    1830
    One of the first programmatic symphonies. He also employs the idee fixe.

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

    1830 - 1831
    Solo piano pieces based on traditional Polish dance

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

    1841
    Das Jahr are character pieces, 12 months plus a postlude. Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel established salon culture.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

    1857 - 1858
    Based on melodies and rhythms of Puerto Rico.

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

    1874
    Written in tribute to his friend and artist, Viktor Hartmann. It depicts 10 movements inspired by pieces of art in an exhibition.

  • Bizet Carmen

    1875
    Carmen is an Opera Comique, featuring spoken dialogue over recitative. It also stands out as one of the most memorable examples of its genre.

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

    1876
    Wagners productions pushed the boundaries of opera, establishing the grand productions we are familiar with today. The Ring Cycle specifically pushed these boundaries.

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

    1885

  • 13. Mahler Symphony No.1

    1889

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

    1910

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

    1912

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

    1913

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

    1920

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm”

    1930

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

    1936

  • Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

    1937

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

    1940

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

    1943-1944

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

    1948

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

    1959

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

    1970

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    1986