Music History Outline

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  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne's rule as Holy Roman Emperor

    From Charlemagne's rule, musical notation was developed to standardize the performance of chant melodies.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Musica Enchiriadis translates to music handbook and was used by early European musicians.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's "Micrologus"

    Guido Arezzo's "Micrologus" introduced the four line staff and relative pitch, which made it easier for singers to sight sing.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1101 to 1299

    Troubadour and Trobairitz

    The troubadours and trobairitzes were active in the 12th and 13th century.
  • Period: 1163 to 1190

    Notre Dame School Polyphony- Leonin

  • Period: 1190 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony- Perotin

  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Franco of Cologne was a German man who taught in Paris. He established the Fanconian Mensural Notation which included the double long, long, breve and semi breve. He also established the definition of consonance and dissonance for his time.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treaty

    The Ars Nova Treatise further developed rhythm notation and introduced the early version of time signatures.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

  • Period: 1450 to 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press (movable type)

  • 1515

    Josquin's "Missa Pangue Lingua"

  • 1529

    Martin Luther's "Ein feste burg"

  • 1538

    Arcadelt's "Il bianco e dolce cigno"

  • 1560

    Palestrina's "Pope Marcellus Mass"

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle Donne

    Concerto delle Donne was an all girls group, who sang in courts in Ferrara, Italy. They prompted the revolution for women to be able to perform music.

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    Sonata pian'e forte was created by Andrea Gabrieli and nephew, Giovanni Gabrieli. They created it in St. Mark's Cathedral. This piece is important because it was the first to have written dynamics and was written for specific instruments.
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo"

  • First Public Concerts in England

    This was the birth of modern concert life.
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    JS Bach

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    Handel

  • Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"

  • Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Estro Armonico"

  • Brandenburg Concertos

    There are 6 parts in the Brandbenburg Concertos.

  • Rameau's "Traite de l'harmonie"

  • Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" Volume 1

    The first volume has 24 preludes and fugues.
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    Pre Classical Period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's "Messiah"

    Handel's "Messiah" was premiered in Dublin in 1742.
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    WA Mozart

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    Viennese Classical Period

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    Beethoven

    Beethoven's birthday is estimated to be December 16th, 1770, though it isn't certain. He was baptized December 17th, 1770.
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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concert des Amateurs

  • Haydn's op.33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

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    Schubert

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    Symphony No. 5 in Cm, Beethoven

    Symphonies 4 and 5 were written at the same time, between these years. The 5th and 6th were premiered December 1808.

  • "Erlkonig", Schubert

  • Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"

  • 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, Op. 1, Niccolo Paganini

    Publication date

  • Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished", Schubert

    Composed in 1822

  • Symphony No. 9, Beethoven

    Composed in 1823 and premiered in 1824

  • "Symphonie fantastique", Berlioz

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    "Carnaval", Robert Schumann

  • "Das Jahr", Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

  • "Liebst du um Schonheit", Clara Wieck

  • "Treatise on Instrumentation", Berlioz

  • Violin Concerto in Em, Op. 64, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

  • Mazurkas Op. 7, Frederic Chopin

  • Verdi's "La Traviata"

  • Period: to

    "Souvenir de Porto Rico", Louis Moreau Gottschalk

  • Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" premiere

  • Mussourgsy's "Boris Godunov" premiere

  • Bizet's "Carmen"

  • Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" premiere

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1 premiere

  • Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"

  • Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "New World"

  • Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune (premiere)

  • Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Premiere

  • Prokofiev "Alexander Nevsky" Film

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Oliver Messiaen's "Quatour 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 "Black Angels"

  • John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"