Music History entry 2 due Dec 2020

By dokesjason
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus had a 4-line staff with relative pitch, sight singing syllables, a rounded b(flat) and a square b (natural).
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Brought new innovation to musical notation that grew into an art movement spanning 1315-1375
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1485

    Ave Maria ... virgo serena - Josquin

  • 1529

    Ein feste burg - Martin Luther

  • 1538

    Bianco e dolce cigno -Arcadelt

  • 1567

    Pope Marcellus mass - Palestrina

    Mostly stepwise melodic motion introducing dissonances in suspension resolving on strong beats. Most leaps followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction creating the palestrina arch.

  • O Magnum Mysterium

  • Sonata pian'e forte - Gabrieli

    One of the first pieces to specify which instruments to play which part, and first piece in history to specify dynamics.
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    It launched the immense popularity of the Italian concerto

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Became the basis for teaching functional harmony that is still used today.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    Demonstrates the possibilities for playing in all keys using an instrument tuned in near-equal temperament.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

    One of the finest orchestras in Europe

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethovern Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    Premiere Year

  • Schubert Erlkönig

    Composition Date

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Premiere Date

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    complete publication year

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

    Composition Date

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

    Composition Date
  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

    original piano version

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Complete cycle premiere

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

  • Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (premiere)

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm”

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Duke Ellington Cottontail

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

  • Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring

  • Period: to

    John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine