Music History Timeline Final

By patrickdaw1
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    This book outlines teaching practice for chants using a four line staff, sight singing, and relative pitch.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    The Ars Nova Treatise brought about innovation in rhythm notation in music, using the basic unit of the breve, and subdividing it either perfectly into three or imperfectly into two.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Motet Ave Maria... virgo serena

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress..)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1562

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    This mass, published in 1562, was allegedly composed by Palestrina to prove to the Council of Trent that music could be polyphonic and have understandable words at the same time. This allegedly stopped the Council of Trent from banning polyphonic music from church.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata Pian e Forte

    Composed by Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice, this piece was not only the first to have written dynamics, and it was also sung cori spezzati, which means split choirs.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts In England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'estro armonico

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

    Rameau wrote this to codify the practices of his peers. This was the most influential of all theoretical works about music, and became the basis for teaching functional harmony at the time.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    Standard tuning had just been invented at the time Bach composed these works, and be wrote pieces in all 24 keys for harpsichord to demonstrate that you could play all of the pieces on one instrument.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 2

  • 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

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a star in Europe during his life, dubbed "The Black Mozart." He was the first black conductor to achieve that level of fame in Europe.

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven 5th Symphony Premiere

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin

  • Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

  • Period: to

    Chopin Mazurkas

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Period: to

    Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Period: to

    Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine