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Epitafio de Seikilos
The Epitaph of Sicylus is the oldest complete musical composition still preserved. Although the Hurrian Songs of Ancient Mesopotamia are older, they are fragments rather than complete compositions. -
Period: 476 to 1492
Medieval Period
The medieval period that began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
Until the late Medieval period, most Medieval music took the form of monophonic chant.
In the medieval age musical notation and neumes emerged, which created pneumatic notation, but it became square notation. -
750
Gregorian chant
The term Gregorian chant is a type of plainchant, simple, monodic and with music subordinated to the text used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church, although sometimes it is used in a broad sense or even as a synonym for plainchant. -
991
Guido d’Arezzo
Guido d’Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk and music theorist who is one of the central figures of medieval music along with Hucbaldo. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
She was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the High Middle Ages. -
1135
Leonin
French composer, poet, and professor. From 1150 to 1160 he was a cathedral administrator in Paris. In 1192 he was ordained a priest at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. -
1155
Perotin
He was a French medieval composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame de Paris, in which the polyphonic style began to take shape. -
1170
Ars Antiqua
Ars antiqua, also called ars veterum or ars vetus, is a term used by modern scholars to refer to the Medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between approximately 1170 and 1310. This covers the period of the Notre-Dame school of polyphony (the use of multiple, simultaneous, independent melodic lines), and the subsequent years which saw the early development of the motet, a highly varied choral musical composition. -
1217
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart is unique among 12th-century secular composers in the amount of his music that has survived: of his 45 poems, 18 have their music intact, an unusual circumstance for a troubadour. -
1221
Alfonso X el Sabio
He was the king of the Crown of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a medieval French clergyman, poet, and composer. His projection was enormous and he is historically the maximum representative of the movement known as Ars nova, being considered the most famous composer of the 14th century. He contributed to the development of the motet and secular song. -
1310
Ars Nova
Ars nova (Latin for new art) refers to a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages. More particularly, it refers to the period between the preparation of the Roman de Fauvel (1310s) and the death of composer Guillaume de Machaut in 1377. The term is sometimes used more generally to refer to all European polyphonic music of the fourteenth century. -
1325
Francesco Landini
Francesco Landini or Landino was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker, and astrologer. He was one of the most famous and admired composers of the second half of the 14th century and without a doubt the most famous composer in Italy. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor who changed the world with his printing press. He was born around 1395 in Mainz, a city on the Rhine River. -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance
Renaissance is the name given in the 19th century to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. It was a transition period between the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age. Its main exponents are found in the field of the arts, although there was also a renewal in the sciences, both natural and human. The city of Florence, in Italy, was the birthplace and development of this movement, which later spread throughout Europe. -
1510
Antonio de Cabezón
He lived in Burgos. In Palencia he probably received lessons from García de Baeza, organist of the cathedral. In 1526 he was organist of the musical chapel of the Empress Isabel of Portugal, and in 1538 he entered the service of the Emperor Charles I as organist of his Castilian chapel, where he had to come into contact with the singers of the emperor's Flemish chapel. -
1525
Guiovanni Puerligi da Plestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Palestrina, 1525 Rome, 1594) was an Italian composer, one of the most famous of the Renaissance. As a young man, he was part of the choir of the Roman basilica of Santa María la Mayor. Later, he was organist in the cathedral of his native city. When the bishop of Palestrina acceded to the papal throne with the name of Julius III, he appointed him master of the choir of the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican. The following year he published his first book of masses. -
1530
Juan del Encina
He died in 1529 or in 1530 -
1532
Orlando di Lasso
Orlande de Lassus hew was born in 1532 – 14 June 1594. Was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria as the leading composers of the later Renaissance. Immensely prolific, his music varies considerably in style and genres, which gave him unprecedented popularity throughout Europe. -
1544
Maddalena Casulana
She was an Italian composer, lute player and singer of the late Renaissance. She was the first woman composer to have an entire volume of her music printed and published exclusively in the history of Western music. -
Feb 18, 1546
Martín Lutero
He dead February 18, 1546 -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria (Ávila, h. 1548 – Madrid, August 20, 1611) was a composer, chapel master and famous polyphonist of the Spanish Renaissance. He has been considered one of the most relevant and advanced composers of his time, with an innovative style that heralded the imminent Baroque. Its influence reaches the 20th century, when it was taken as a model by the composers of Cecilianism. -
1553
Andrea Gravieli
Andrea Gabrieli (ca. 1533 – August 30, 1585) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Uncle of perhaps the most famous composer Giovanni Gabrieli, he was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers. He had great influence in the spread of the Venetian style in both Italy and Germany -
1553
Cristobal de Morales
He dead the 4 of September of 1553 -
1554
Giovanni Gabrieli
He was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
He was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures in late Renaissance music with intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music pieces with a chromaticism that would not be heard again until the end of the 19th century. -
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Baroque Music
It refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.[1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition, the galant style. The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750. -
Barbara Strozzi
She was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was achieved without any support from the Church and with no consistent patronage from the nobility. -
Claudio Monteverdi
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was born the 10 September of 1659 and he dead the 21 of November of 1695. He was an English composer. Although it incorporated Italian and French elements, Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English. Generally considered among the greatest English opera composers. -
Antoine Lucio Vivaldi
He was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and programatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form into a widely accepted and followed idiom, which was paramount in the development of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. -
George Philipp Telemann
Was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of that city's five main churches -
Sebastian Bach
It was born in 1685. He was a German composer, musician, conductor, Kapellmeister, singer and teacher of the Baroque period. -
Georg Friedrich Händel
He was born the February 23, 1685, Halle, Germany. He was German composer naturalized English. A strict contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach (although two composers more opposed in terms of style and aspirations could hardly be found), Handel represents not only one of the peaks of the Baroque era, but also of music of all time -
Stradivarius
A Stradivarius violin is one of the stringed instruments made by members of the Italian Stradivari family, most notably by Antonio Stradivari. Stradivarius instruments are highly prized by the world's leading players and by antique collectors.