2021 Final

By camillecore
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    A treatise in which Guido describes the use of solmization (ie; sight singing syllables), using a six note system (ie; the hexachord system), created the four line staff, the idea of relative pitch, and accidentals using a rounded b (flat) and a square b (natural).
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    This treatise laid the ground work for modern notation introducing meter along with new note shapes and values.
  • 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 Pope Marcellus Mass

    This work, dedicated to the pope, demonstrated that sacred words can be intelligible in polyphonic music with six voices. To this day, this work is an ideal model for counterpoint.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    This work, composed in Venice, was the first to ever specify which instruments were to play what line. It was also the first ever to indicate dynamics.
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    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    A collection that was the most influential publication of any music in the early 18th century. It launched the popularity of the Italian concerto throughout Europe.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    These works demonstrate the possibilities for playing in all the keys using an instrument tuned in near-equal temperament.

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

    The most influential of all theoretical works, this treatise introduced the terms tonic, dominant, and subdominant (established 3 chords as pillars of harmony) and it defined the root of a chord and recognized inversions. This treatise became the basis for teaching functional harmony that is still used today.
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    PreClassical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    The Concert des Amateurs was one of the finest orchestras in Europe, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges led one of the world's first modern orchestras at the time.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    It was written in 1791, but premiered in London in 1792.

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    This symphony was written in the 2nd of 3 style periods that infused drama and expression. It was four movements constructed of only 4 notes.

  • Schubert Erlkonig

    This piece was one of 59 songs set to texts by JW Goethe. It was also the first song that Schubert attempted to have published.

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Famous for encompassing on of the most famous patter arias (Figaro).

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op 1

    Theme and variations, this theme served as the basis for variations by other composers.

  • Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

    This was the first time mazurkas, typically played by multiple instruments, were written for piano.

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    One of the first programmatic symphonies.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Dar Jahr

    A program piece which was one of 400 of Mendelssohn's most famous compositions that features character pieces, twelve months, plus a postlude.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

    A piece written based on Gottschalk's tours through the Caribbean.

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

    A suite of 10 pieces for piano. This suite is the most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for pianos.

  • Bizet Carmen

    A semiserious opera about that uses the music to characterize the characters, such as using an augmented 2nd motive to represent Carmen.

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

    A cycle of 4 music dramas. The music dramas feature continuous music, extensive use of leitmotifs, diminished importance of virtuosic singing, and elimination of musical numbers to enhance continuity.

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

    Brahms' final symphony.

  • Mahler Symphony No. 1

    This symphony incorporates music Mahler had previously composed.

  • Claude Debussy "Voiles" from Preludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schonberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

  • George and Ira Gershwin "I Got Rhythm"

  • Margaret Bonds "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • Period: to

    Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine