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354
St. Augustine
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Dec 9, 750
Plainchant
style of notation -
Dec 7, 1100
Organum
style of notation -
Dec 7, 1100
Ad Organum Faciendum
organum manual -
Dec 7, 1119
Codex Calixtinus
Set of 5 books w/ music, pilgramige manual -
Dec 7, 1150
Leonin
style of notation -
Dec 6, 1200
Noble Patronage I
France, Spain, and Italy until 1650, France: Troubadours, Trobairitz, Trouvers. Italy: Dance music and madrigals. Spain: Villancies -
Dec 7, 1200
Perotin
style of notation -
Dec 8, 1200
Troubadours and Trouveres
Wandering poet, musicians employed by nobility, high class, Trouveres - women, Troubadours and Trobairitz - men -
Dec 1, 1270
Non Sofre Santa Maria
Galacian-Portuguese, possibly sung on pilgramige route -
Dec 7, 1280
Franconian
style of notation -
Dec 7, 1300
Ars Nova
style of notation -
Dec 9, 1337
"The Effects of Good and Bad Government in the Town an"d in the Country
Painting, Ambriogo Lorenzetti -
Dec 8, 1350
Dance Music and Madrigals
Italy, divided into states, dance genre (saltarello), vocal genres (madrigal) -
Dec 7, 1400
Ars Subtilior
style of notation -
Dec 9, 1425
"Holy Trinity with the Virgin, St. John, and Donors" painting
Masaccio -
Dec 9, 1480
"Idealized view of the city"
painting -
Dec 7, 1485
Ave Maria
written for church, first piece of music printed (1502), renaissance style -
Dec 9, 1492
Columbus sails the ocean blue
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Dec 9, 1492
Reconquista finished with the fall of Granada
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Dec 9, 1492
Jew exiled from Spain
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Dec 9, 1492
First spanish grammar published
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Dec 9, 1501
Michelangelo's "David"
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Dec 8, 1507
Jacques Arcadelt
Italian composer (Dance music and madrigals), Il bianco - The sweet white swan -
Dec 6, 1561
Carlo Gesualdo
Italian composer (Dance music and Madrigals), Io parto, was a prince -
Dec 7, 1567
Claudio Monteverdi
Composed and published motets, madrigals and operas -
Dec 8, 1575
Hernando Franco
first major composer, chapel master (main composer for cathedral) -
Dec 9, 1580
Florentine Camerata
academies/place to learn -
Juan Gutierrez
spanish composer, puebla cathedral, villancicos (holiday music) -
Flow my tears
written by John Galen, right between renaissance and baroque, accompanied by Lute, downward motion is the theme -
Euridice
Opera by Jacobo Peri in Florence -
L'Orfeo
written by Claudio Monteverdi -
Teatro San Cassiano
First opera house, built in Venice -
Common wealth period
political change, monarchy exiled to France -
Antonio de Salazar
spanish composer, puebla and mexico city, villancicos -
Arcangelo Corelli
concerto grusso, alternating the lines (ritornello) -
Francisco Lopez Capillas
first mexican composer, worked as chapel master, choirboy, organist, villancicos -
Giuseppe Torelli
wrote sonatas w/ ornamented top line, voice/instruments playing together -
Academic Royale de Musique
Royal Opera -
Cadmus et Hermione
french baroque opera -
Antonio Viraldi
solo instruments that alternated w/ updated style, new style of italian music swept Europe (technically advanced, short, fast notes, better instruments), publications, 500 concertos, 230 solo violin, worked at "Ospedale della Pieta" (orphanage) -
J.S. Bach
German Composer, did every genre EXCEPT opera, huge family of musicians, choral music, instrumental music, conerti and sonatas -
Manuel de Sumaya
mexican composer, choirboy, organist, taught by Salazar -
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell -
Ingacio Jerusalem y Stella
Italian composer, worked in spanish theaters, villancicos/cantadas, responsories (using operatic forms) -
Carl Philippe Emanuel
two careers: noble patron and city council -
Six Brandenburg concerti
Bach concerti -
Christian Cannabich
chamber music for houses -
Joseph Haydn
started as a choirboy in Vienna, early musical training, count morzin, works: symphonies, string quartets, chamber music, operas, sacred music -
Goldberg Variations
Bach keyboard genre -
James Hook
Theater composer, wrote songs, overtures, house music -
L'Encyclopedie
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Born in Austria, played publically at 6, hundreds of works (sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and opera), wild guy, didn't like to teach -
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Born in Germany, started playing professionally at 7, toured Germany at age 20, not a good teacher, nasty person -
Hydn or Oxford Symphony 92
comissioned by frenchman, french revolution also going on -
Giachino Rossini
italian opera composer, wrote other genres too (especially sacred music), 38 mature operas over 18 years, 2 operas a year, international reputation, retired early at age of 37 (wealthy) -
Gaetano Donizetta
Italian composer, 71 operas (1 per month) -
Franz Schubert
600 songs, 2 cycles, -
Hector Berlioz
French composer, works include: symphony fantastique, other symphonies, piano songs, an opera, overtures to shakespears -
Frederic Chopin
polish composer, polonaise, mazuraka, nocturnes -
Franz Liszt
Hungarian performer/composer -
Richard Wagner
german composer, theater director, know for his operas, complex textures, rich harmonies -
Guiseppe Verdi
Italian composer, wrote 24 operas, had more control over the process -
Symphony Fatastique performed
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Symphony Fantastique (version 2) performed in Paris
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Johannes Brahms
German composer, works include: lots of orchestral music, overture, 4 symphonies, piano pieces, German Requiem -
Wagner becomes conductor/music director in Germany
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Georges Bizet
french opera composers, most famous "Carmen" 1875, exotic themes: gypsies, women smoking, catfights -
Antonin Dvorak
bohemian compoer, used folk songs, famous, national conservatory of music, NY 1892 -
Wagner finished the "Flying Dutchman" in France
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Edvand Grieg
norwegian composer, trained in germany, worked in Norway, genres: solo piano, chamber music, songs, incidential music -
Wagner's "The Art-Work of the Future"
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Wagner's "Judaism in Music"
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Wagner's "Opera and Drama"
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Schumann goes insane, Brahms takes over
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Brahms becomes conductor of Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
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Slovonic Dances
dance forms, published for public use