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100
Seikilos epitaph
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription dated between 1th century and 2 th century. The composition of the Seikilos epitaph talks about "while you live, shine, don't suffer for anything" -
Period: 100 to Dec 10, 1492
Antigüedad y Edad Media
Epitafio de Seikilos
Canto Gregoriano
Ars Antiqua
Ars Nova
Perotin
Leonin
Guido d’Arezzo
Hildegard von Bingen
Bernart de Ventadorn
Alfonso X el Sabio
Guillaume de Machaut
Francesco Landini -
950
Georgian chant
Is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin of the Roman Catholic Church. -
991
Guido d’Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk and musical theorist who constitutes one of the central figures of the music of the Middle Ages along with Hucbaldo. -
1098
Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen was a holy Benedictine abbess and German polymath, active as a composer, writer, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, physician, mystic, monastic leader and prophetess during the Middle Ages. -
1134
Bernart de Ventadorn
Bernart de Ventadorn, also known as Bernart de Ventadour and Bernard de Ventadorn, was a popular Provençal troubadour, composer and poet. He is probably the best-known troubadour of the style called trobar leu. -
1135
Leonin
Léonin or Magister Leoninus is, along with Perotín, the first known composer of polyphonic organum, related to the School of Notre Dame. -
Period: 1160 to 1230
Perotin
Was a medieval French 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 of Paris, in which the polyphonic style began to take shape. -
1200
Ars antiqua
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. -
1221
Alfonso X el Sabio
Alfonso X of Castile, called the Wise, was the king of the Crown of Castile and the other titled kingdoms between 1252 and 1284. Upon the death of his father, Ferdinand III the Saint, he resumed the offensive against the Muslims and occupied Jerez, Salé, the port of Rabat and conquered Cádiz. -
1300
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a French medieval cleric, poet and composer. His influence was enormous and he is historically the greatest representative of the movement known as Ars nova, and is considered the most famous composer of the 14th century. He contributed to the development of the motet and secular song. -
Period: 1300 to
Renacimiento
Johannes Gutenberg
Antonio de Cabezon
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlando di Lasso
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Cristóbal de Morales
Martín Lutero
Carlo Gesualdo
Andrea Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
Juan del Encina
Maddalena Casulana -
1335
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 certainly the most famous composer in Italy. -
1400
Ars nova
Refers to a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages. -
1410
Johannes Gutemberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, better known as Johannes Gutenberg or Johannes Gutemberg, was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type, around 1450. -
1483
Martín Lutero
Martin Luther, born Martin Luder, was an Augustinian Catholic theologian, philosopher, and friar who began and promoted the Protestant Reformation in Germany and whose teachings inspired the theological and cultural doctrine called Lutheranism. -
1500
Cristóbal de Morales
Cristóbal de Morales Spanish Catholic priest and chapelmaster, being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonist school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance. -
1510
Antonio de Cabezon
Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. -
1530
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
1531
Orlando di Lasso
Orlando di Lasso, also known as Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Roland Delattre or Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century. -
1548
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a Catholic priest, chapel teacher and famous polyphonist composer 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. -
1566
Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer, one of the most significant figures of late Renaissance music with intensely expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music with a chromaticism that will not be heard again until the end of the century XIX.