History of Music Timeline - Lacey Somers

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 990 to 1050

    Guido of Arezzo

    Introduced the Hexachord System
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Ars nova replaced ars antiqua
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Motet: "Ave Maria"

  • 1529

    Martin Luther's "A Might Fortress"

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal

  • 1567

    Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass"

    According to legend, Palestrina dedicated his "Pope Marcellus Mass" to the pope and demonstrated that sacred words could be understood in polyphonic music with 6 voices.
  • 1572

    Victoria Motet: "O magnum mysterium"

  • Gabrieli's "Sonata pian'e forte"

    First piece to have dynamics written in and was written for two ensembles of equal size.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

    Harmonic Inspiration, published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam.

  • Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie

    (Treatise on Harmony) Most influential of all Theoretical Works, codified practices of his contemporaries, bases for teaching functional harmony.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1

    It contained 24 Preludes and Fugues in all 24 major and minor keys.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Hayden

  • Handel's Messiah

    Premiered in 1742
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

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

    One of the finest orchestras in Europe

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Hayden's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Premiered in London on March 23, 1792

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor Premiere

  • Schubert "Erlkönig"

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin op. 1

  • Berlioz "Symphonie fantastique"

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel "Das Jahr"

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk "Souvenir de Porto Rico"

  • Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition"

  • Bizet "Carmen" Premiere

  • Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen" Premiere

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Premiere

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1 Premiere

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

  • Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia premiere

  • Claude Debussy's "Voiles" from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Shönberg'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 Rhthym"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Premiere

  • Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" Film

  • Oliver Messiaen's "Quatuor pour le fine du temps"

  • Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring"

  • John Cage's 4'33"

  • Period: to

    Edgard Varèse, "Poeme Electronique"

  • Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"

  • George Crumb's "Black Angels"

  • John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"