Music History

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Music Era

    During this time, a lot of music was focused on the church. The music was chanted and written out on large sheets of paper to be sung in churches.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Guido used staff notation and sight singing,
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    One of the most important composers of the Medieval period. She was also the first female composer.
  • 1323

    Ars Nova

    It replaces Ars Antiqua (old art) and made a major reformation to the way we look at notation for our music.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Music Era

    Music changed drastically in this era from the era before.
  • 1485

    Josquin’s Ave Maria ... virgo serena Motet

    This was sometimes known as the "Mona Lisa" of renaissance music.
  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress..)

    This was Martin Luther's most famous chorale. It became an anthem for reformation.
  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    This became a model for present-day textbooks on the subject of counterpoints. it also introduced the Palestrina arch which is featured a lot in this piece.
  • 1572

    Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

    This piece is significant for two reasons. It was the first work of music to specify dynamic control and to specify all of the voices in the piece with instruments.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

    Bizzare, complicated and overdone music

  • Montiverdi's L'Orfeo

    The first opera to enter the standard repertory

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

  • Rameau's Traite de L'harmonie

    This define roots and recognized inversions. It established the triad and 7th chord as prominent. The first to use the term tonic and made it known that V7 to I was the strongest. Established a fundamental bassline.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical

  • Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as Director of Concerts des Amateurs'

    Called the most accomplished man in Europr

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • London Premiere of Haydn's Surprise Symphony

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    Caprice – humorous, capricious work characterized by a
    departure from current stylist norm
    Dedicated to ‘alli Artisti’ (professional musicians)
    Deemed ”unplayable” by many
    Caprice no.24 - theme and variations (theme served as basis
    for variations by other composers such as Brahms, Liszt and
    Rachmaninoff)

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    Orchestration:
    Strings
    2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons
    Piccolo, Contrabassoon, 2 French Horns, 2 Trumpets
    3 Trombones (first to add these instruments to a
    symphony).
    Tympani

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version)

  • Bizet Carmen (premiere date)

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (premiere of complete cycle)

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4 (premiere)

  • Mahler Symphony No.1 (premiere)

  • Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra