Music History Timeline

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  • 768

    Rule of Charlemagne

    Charlemagne was the ruler of Western Europe from 768-814. He was most significant for his work with church music, making sure that they were always conforming with Rome in any way that deals with music. He ended writing between 500 and 600 tunes throughout his reign.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiradis

    This describes having the principal voice (Vox Principalis) on top and the organal voice (Vox Organalis) on bottom. The organal voice is usually improvised a fifth above or below the principal voice.
  • 1026

    Guido of Arezzo: Micrologus

    The innovation of this work is to create simple harmony. As a result solfage syllables were created.
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    She was born in 1098 and she died in 1179.
  • 1100

    Troubadours/Trouveres

    Active poets and songwriters from 100-1350
  • 1163

    Notre Dame School of Polyphony

    The first Gothic cathedral constructed from 1163 to 1250.
  • 1230

    Carmina Burana

    A work arranged by Carl Orff in 1935 from texts from 24 latin poems from the 11th and 13th centuries.
  • 1280

    Franco of Cologne/ Ars cantus mensurabilis

    German intellectual who came to teach in Paris in 1280. He is the person who came up with the first naming system for rhythms.
  • 1300

    Guillaume de Machaut

    Born 1300 and died 1377
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    A period in France for "new art", during this time Phillipe de Vitry invented the first notation for time signatures.
  • 1325

    Landini

    Born 1325 and died 1397
  • 1454

    Gutenberg Printing Press

    A machine that enables the printing of books and other news sources. This resulted in technological development and a price increase in music.
  • 1483

    Martin Luther

    He is the leader who gave the 95 theses and he also created what is now known as the Chorale.
  • 1485

    Josquin's Ave Maria Virgo Serena Motet

    The text refers to the five feasts of the Virgin, or the stations in the life of Mary from Nativity through Assumption.
  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il biano e dolce cigno

    Italian madrigal written in 1538
  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    A mass written for six voices and it was performed a cappella Sisteena, "how they perform in the Sisteen Chapel," which means no music.
  • 1580

    Concerto delle Donne

    The first group of women asked to sing in Italy. They sang secular music in Ferrara 1580-97

  • Musica Transalpina

    A book a English Madrigals. Translated as "Music from across the Alps"

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    This is one of the first pieces that is only for instruments and it also is the first piece to include dynamics.

  • Baroque 1600-1750

    Time period of idiomatic writing, new genres, terraced dynamics, and the idea of music moving the listener.

  • L'Orfeo

    An opera composed by Monteverdi. In performances the libretto was given out to the audience so they could follow along, but it was not fully published until 1609.

  • Vingtquatre Violins du Roi (24 Violins of the King)

    Jean Baptiste Lully

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • J.S. Bach

    Was born in 1685 and died 1750

  • Handel

    Born 1685 and died 1759

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Farinelli

    Famous castrati that was born in 1705 and died in 1782

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'estro Armonica

  • Rameau Traite de l'harmonie

  • Well Tempered Clavier volume 1

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Pre Classical Period 1730-1770

  • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

  • Pergolesi's La serva padrona

  • Handel's Messiah

    It was completed in 1741, but was not premiered until 1742.

  • J. Quantz Essays on Playing the Flute

  • WA Mozart (1756-1791)

  • Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (importance)

  • Viennese Classical Period 1770-1800

  • Beethoven

    Beethoven was born in 1770 and died in 1827

  • Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Don Giovanni

  • London Symphonies (1791-1795)

  • Schubert

    Schubert was born in 1797 and died in 1828

  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Frederic Chopin

    Chopin was born in 1810 and died in 1849

  • Erlking

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op. 1

  • Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"

  • Symphony No. 9

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

  • Mazurkas Op. 7

  • Robert Schumann Carnaval

  • Schumann's Carnaval

    1834-1835

  • Fanny Mendolssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann "Liebst du um Schonheit"

  • Berlioz Treatise of Instrumentation

  • Mendolssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

  • Verdi's La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

    1857-1858

  • Moguchaya kuchka (1860-1870)

  • Wagner Tristan und Isolde

  • Smetana's Ma Vlast-Moldau

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner Der Ring de Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 9

  • Mahler's Symphony No.1

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

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

  • Debussy's Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Schoenberg's Piano Suite, Op. 25 (1921-1925)

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Henry Cowell- The Banshee

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky-film

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartok'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

    A piece written for string quartet in which they also use recorded voices.

  • Del Tredici Final Alice

  • Glass Koyaanisqatsi

  • John Adams' Dr. Atomic