Music History Timeline

By Parker_747
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    The innovations that were included in this document were a 4-line staff, relative pitch, and sight singing.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    1098-1179
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    An important innovation attached to this is prolation.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Choral Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal II bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

    The legend of this piece is that Palestrina created it to prove that you could have polyphony and still be able to hear the words, so he created this one with six voices.
  • 1572

    Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian'e forte

    This piece was composed at St. Mark's Basilica. Two things that are very important that came out of this piece was it was the first to have assigned parts and the first to have dynamics.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    This is the piece that pioneered movements in pieces.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume 1

    This volume of pieces was significant because it included a melody in all 24 major and minor keys.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    This piece became the basis for teaching harmony.
  • Period: to

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

    This allowed non-professional musicians an opportunity to play music and they premiered many works. It also changed how composers wrote their music. They had to be able to write for amateurs.
  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert Erlkönig

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Bizet Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No.4

  • Mahler Symphony No.1

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

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky

  • Duke Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine