Middle Ages & The Renaissance

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  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Middle Ages

    Music was used all throughout the church during this time period. There was also a blooming popular music culture. Most composers were poets and melody was primarily used to convey words.
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  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Middle Ages Stylistic traits and Genres

    Genres: Secular, ballads, lais, rondeaux, virelais, madrigals, and chant. Stylistic traits: Almost purely functional music designed for specific services, dances, or for entertainment. Melodies are only over a short range. Stead and regular rhythms. Harmonies not technically established yet, but common intervals used are the 4th, 5th, and 8ves. Monophonic. Text and poetic form determined musical structure.
  • Period: 481 to 524

    Boethius

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Arrezzo

  • Period: 995 to 1050

    Wipo

  • Period: 1071 to 1126

    William IX

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Bingen

  • Period: 1130 to 1190

    Ventadorn

  • Period: 1135 to 1201

    Leonin

  • Period: 1140 to 1212

    Comtessa de Dia

  • Period: 1150 to 1200

    Daniel

  • Period: 1155 to 1200

    Nesle

  • Period: 1160 to 1213

    Brule

  • Period: 1170 to 1230

    Vogelweide

  • Period: 1180 to 1238

    Perotin

  • Period: 1180 to 1278

    Cardenal

  • Period: 1183 to 1205

    Vidal

  • Period: 1190 to 1236

    Reuental

  • Period: 1213 to 1239

    D'arras

  • Period: 1221 to 1284

    Alfonso X

  • Period: 1230 to 1300

    Riquier

  • Period: 1245 to 1285

    Halle

  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Vitry

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Machaut

  • Period: 1300 to 1350

    The Ars Nova in France

    Translates to the new art. It focused on compositional techniques like isorhythm and hocket.
  • Period: 1300 to 1399

    The Trecento in Italy

  • Period: 1320 to 1362

    Firenze

  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Landini

  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years War

  • Period: 1340 to 1386

    Bologna

  • Period: 1376 to 1445

    Wolkenstein

  • Period: 1380 to 1440

    Cordier

  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    Dunstaple

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    DuFay

  • Period: 1400 to 1460

    Binchois

  • Period: 1410 to 1497

    Ockeghem

  • Period: 1430 to

    The Renaissance

    Secular music became more popular and widespread during this time period. Polyphony was the primary texture in most genres. Melodies were without number and simultaneous, so often obscured. In the 1500s, early versions of homophony appeared. Most composers wrote masses, motets, madrigals (after 1540). The madrigal is where people experimented and lead into the Baroque style. New tuning systems invented.
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance Stylistic traits and genres

    Genres: ballet, balletti, chant, masses, motets, hymns, secular, and sacred. Stylistic traits: top voice usually chosen as melodic voice. Rhythm was quite simple. Progressions of 3rds and 6ths. Dissonances were not encouraged. Tonal system was modality. Homorhythm. Counterpoint. Few forms: cantus firmus, poetic strophic, binary, madrigals. Purpose shifted from function to beauty.
  • Period: 1445 to 1518

    Compere

  • Period: 1446 to 1506

    Agricola

  • 1450

    Printing press invented

  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Prez

  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Isaac

  • Period: 1452 to 1518

    DeLaRue

  • Period: 1457 to 1505

    Obrecht

  • Period: 1460 to 1512

    Brumel

  • Period: 1465 to 1525

    Cara

  • Period: 1466 to 1539

    Petrucci

  • Period: 1470 to 1534

    Tromboncino

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Luther

  • Period: 1485 to 1558

    Janequin

  • Period: 1490 to 1545

    Taverner

  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Sermisy

  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Willaert

  • Period: 1494 to 1576

    Sachs

  • Period: 1500 to 1553

    Morales

  • Period: 1507 to 1568

    Arcadelt

  • Period: 1515 to 1565

    Rore

  • Period: 1517 to

    Zarlino

  • Period: 1521 to

    Monte

  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

  • Period: 1532 to

    Lasso

  • Period: 1532 to

    Gabrieli

  • Period: 1534 to

    Bardi

  • Period: 1535 to

    Wert

  • Period: 1535 to

    Ingegneri

  • Period: 1536 to

    Striggio

  • Period: 1540 to

    Byrd

  • Period: 1545 to

    Luzzaschi

  • Period: 1548 to

    Victoria

  • Period: 1553 to

    Marenzio

  • Period: 1554 to

    Gastoldi

  • Period: 1557 to

    Morley

  • Period: 1559 to

    Beaulieu

  • Period: 1560 to

    Nanino

  • Period: 1561 to

    Gesualdo

  • Period: 1562 to

    Sweelinck

  • Period: 1567 to

    Monteverdi

  • Period: 1571 to

    Salmon

  • Period: 1576 to

    Weelkes