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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido of Arezzo was the first to publicly use lots of elements of music that are used today, This includes accidentals (round (flat) and square(natural)), relative pitch, and staff paper with four lines.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Ars Nova translates to "New Art" and this became a large wave in France in 1323. This wave of new art leads to the creation of many features of modern notation such as, how we express note value and division of music into the triple and duple meters.
  • 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

  • 1560

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    This piece exemplified that polyphonic music with 6 different voices could be intelligent and not simply a jumble. This was heavily doubted before this piece was publicized.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian'e forte

    This piece was the first of its kind in terms of written dynamics and designating which instrument is to play which part.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    These concertos changed the music world and heavily influenced the evolution of concertos

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Made use of both major and minor keys in order to influence the use of progressions of harmony based on the 12 note scale.

  • Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    The first piece that displayed one instrument playing in all keys.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

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

    He was widely known as a composer and violinist and was even referred to as the black Mozart. He was also widely known for being an amazing swordsman.
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-HenselDas Jahr

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau 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:

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg 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

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • Ancient Voices of Children

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine