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476
Fall of the Roman Empire
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Period: 476 to 1435
Middle Ages
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Period: 476 to 1435
Musical Genres
Secular, Polyphony, Chanson, Plainsong, Art Music -
Period: 476 to 1435
Instruments
Flute, Trumpet, Bagpipe, Recorder, Sackbut, Hautboy, Horns, Oboe, Trombone, Tuba, Tambourine, Cymbals, Drums, Bells, Pipe Organ, Hurdy-gurdy -
Period: 476 to 1435
Tonality
Monophony, slowly adding in polyphony by 14th century -
Period: 476 to 1435
Musical Forms
Sacred and Secular -
732
Charles the Hammer and the Battle of Tours
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800
Charlamagne, Roman Emperor
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843
Treaty of Verdun
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Period: 995 to 1050
Guido de Arezzo
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard von Bingen
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Period: 1135 to 1201
Léonin
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Period: 1160 to 1238
Pérotin
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Period: 1210 to 1240
Moniot d'Arras
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1215
Declaration of the Magna Carta
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Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
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Period: 1312 to 1317
The Great Famine
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1337
The Hundred Years’ War
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Period: 1348 to 1350
The Black Death
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Period: 1400 to 1460
Gilles Binchois
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Period: 1435 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1435 to
Muiscal Genres
Secular, Madrigal, Early Music, Baroque, A cappella, Chanson -
Period: 1435 to
Instruments
Trumpet, Cornett, Lyre, Lute, Viol, Hurdy-gurdy, Jew’s Harp, Shawm, Panpipe, Transverse Flute -
Period: 1435 to
Tonality
Strictly polyphony, and fuller sounds than medieval music -
Period: 1435 to
Musical Forms
German Lied, Italian frottola, the French chanson, the Italian madrigal, and the Spanish villancico -
Period: 1440 to 1521
Josquin Des Prez
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1454
Gutenberg Bible
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Period: 1460 to 1518
Pierre de La Rue
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1492
Columbus Reached the Bahamas
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1504
Michelangelo Finish “David”
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Period: 1510 to
Thomas Tallis
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1513
Machiavelli Published “The Prince”
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Period: 1526 to
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Period: 1543 to
William Byrd
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1555
The Peace of Augsburg
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Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
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1570
First Modern Atlas was Published