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Period: 400 BCE to 1450
Medieval
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800
Charlemagne becomes Holy Roman Emperor
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850
Gunpowder invented by Chinese Monks
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Period: 991 to 1033
Guido D'Arezzo
Guido D'Arezzo was born and died in Italy. His lifespan is not certain but he was born around 991 and died after 1033. -
1054
East-West Schism
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1096
The First Crusade Begins
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard Von Bingen
Born in Bermersheim von der Höhe, (modern day Germany) and lived until 81 when she died in Bingen. -
1100
Pérotin
Pérotin worked in Paris. We are unsure of his dates but he flourished in the 12th century. -
Period: 1140 to 1201
Léonin
Léonin was born in Paris in an estimated year of 1135-1150, he died in Paris in an assumed 1201. His timeline is not as certain as other composers. -
1206
Mongols unite under new emperor Genghis Khan
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Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
Machart was born in Reims, Northeast France and died in Reims (we think) at the estimated age of 77. -
1320
Dante writes "Inferno"
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1347
Black Death
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1440
Invention of the Printing Press
It is not known exactly when the movable type printing press was invented. It appears to have been invented around 1439 or 1440. Gutenberg's invention was profoundly important. It launched a revolution in printing. -
Period: 1450 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1450 to 1521
Josquin Desprez
Josquin was born in either Picardy, Northern France or Belgium and lived to the age of 71. He died in Conde-sur-Escaut, France -
Period: 1506 to 1568
Jacques Arcadelt
Ardent was born in what is probably France or Belgium at an unknown specific year, he died in France at the age of 62 -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi
Monteverdi was born in Cremona, Italy and died in Venice, Italy at the age of 76. -
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Baroque
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Period: to
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani
Cozzolani was born in Milan, Italy and lived there all her life. She died in her mid seventies. -
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Henry Purcell
1659 – 1695
Purcell was born in London, England and died there at the age of 35. -
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy and died in Vienna Austria at the age of 65. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach was born in Eisenach, Central Germany and died at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Eastern Central Germany -
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Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy and died in Madrid Spain at the age of 71. -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
Born in Rohrau, Eastern Austria and died in Vienna at the age of 77. -
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Classical
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Period: to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria and died at the age of 35 in Vienna. -
Period: to
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Born in (modern day) central west Germany and died in Vienna, Austria at the age of 56. -
Period: to
Romantic
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Period: to
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. -
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Twentieth Century
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Period: to
Fusion of Film and Music
Accompanists, either pianists or entire orchestras, were hired to drown out the noise made by the projector during silent film viewing -
1905
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1909
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1910
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1911
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1913
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First Music Score for Film
Joseph Carl Breil wrote the first feature length musical score for The Birth of a Nation (1915) -
First Feature Film with Synchronized Dialogue and Song Sequences
The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first feature length film with synchronized dialogue and song sequences -
Period: to
The Dawn of the Talkies
Most of the songs used are traditional Jazz standard -
1933
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1936-38
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1945
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Jazz Revolution
The rising popularity of jazz music revolutionized the way music for film was written and the format of orchestration
Fewer musicians were required to record scores -
Experimental Tradition
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Addition of Rock Music
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1980
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Rise of Synthesizers
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1982
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1988
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Prevalence of Pop and Rock Music
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Advancement of Technology
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Period: to
Modern
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The Present and Future