Music History Timeline

By mwelsh5
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne rule as Holy Roman Emperor

    Under his rule, the Roman liturgy was moved across the Alps to France, and from their it was stabilized and canonized.
  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Anonymous 9th century treatise designed to set up the rules of polyphony, based on a system of tetrachords
  • 1025

    Guido of Arezzo Micrologus

    Guidonian Hand as a neumatic device, creation of 4 line staff and use of hexachordal system
  • Period: Sep 16, 1098 to Sep 17, 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • Period: 1160 to 1250

    Notre Dame School of Polyphony

    Group of composers that worked near or at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
  • 1230

    Carmina Burana

  • Period: 1240 to 1280

    Franco of Cologne/ Ars Cantus Mensurabilis

    Proposed the idea that music should be determined by its appearance on the page. Created system of breves, semibreves, minims and crochets.
  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillame de Machaut

  • 1320

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Treatise written by Philippe Vitry that pertain to innovations in rhythmic notation that emancipated music from rhythmic mode and lead to the increased use of smaller note values.
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Landini

  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance Music Period

  • 1421

    Old Hall Manuscript

    Largest, most complete collection of medieval English sacred music
  • 1450

    Gutenberg Press

  • 1485

    Josquin Ave Maria

  • 1501

    Petrucci Odhecaton

    First Music published with movable type was Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
  • 1527

    Ein feste Burg

  • 1562

    Missa Papae Marcelli - Palestrina

  • Period: 1573 to 1582

    Florentine Camerata

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto della Donne

    Group of female singers in Italy

  • Musica Transalpina

    Collection of madrigals that crossed the Alps from the Italians to the English

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    Earliest known piece to call for specific brass instruments, played at St. Marks
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    Baroque Period

  • Giulio Caccini's Le nuove musiche

    Collection of monodies and songs for solo voice and basso continuo, earliest and most significant example of music written in the seconda prattica.

  • L'Orfeo

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    Versailles' orchestras Vingtquatre Violons du Roi

  • First public concerts in England

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    JS Bach

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    Handel

  • Jean Baptiste Lully's Armide

  • Dido and Aeneas

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    Farinelli

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • Rameau's Traite de l'harmonie

  • Well Tempered Clavier

  • Giulio Cesare

  • St. Matthew's Passion

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    Viennese Classical period

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    Franza Joseph Haydn

  • Pergolesi La Serva Padrona

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    Johann Stamitz at Mannheim

  • Messiah

  • J. Quantz essays on playing the flute

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    W.A. Mozart

  • Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice

    old Italian operatic conventions are disregarded in favor of giving the action dramatic impetus
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    Beethoven

  • Piano concerto no. 23

  • Don Giovanni

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    London Symphonies

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    Schubert

  • Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

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    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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    Robert Schumann

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    Frederic Chopin

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    Franz Liszt

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    Guiseppe Verdi

    Ruling presence in Italian music, people considered him to be a king of Italy
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    Richard Wagner

    Increased role of orchestra in productions, long operas, ushered in the destruction of tonality with Tristan und Isolde

  • Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Niccolo Paganini 's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, op.1 (publication date)

  • Symphony No.8 “Unfinished”

  • Symphony No.9

  • Mazurkas Op.7

  • Symphonie fantastique

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    French Grand Opera

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    Johannes Brahms

  • Carnaval

  • Carnaval

  • Fanny Hensel Das Jahr

  • Berlioz Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Violin Concerto in E minor

  • Saxophone invention

    Adolphe Sax

  • 12 Études d’exécution transcendante

  • La traviata

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Period: to

    Moguchaya kuchka

  • Tristan und Isolde

  • Musikverein

  • Société Nationale de Musique

  • Boris Godunov

  • Carmen

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Smetana's Ma Vlast-Moldau

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4

  • Otello

  • Mahler Symphony no. 1

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    Arcangelo Corelli'sTrio Sonatas

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

  • Dvorak Symphony No.9 “New World"

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

  • Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Pierrot Lunaire

  • Le sacre du Printemps

  • Les Six Francais

    George Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailferre

  • Charles Ives’ Essay before a Sonata

  • Charles Ives's Essays before a Sonata

  • Schonberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Puccini's Turandot

  • Louis Armstrong's Hotter Than That

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Richard Strauss "Don juan"