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Music History Timeline

  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval

  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Birth
  • 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Death
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Innovation of rhythm and prolation.
  • 1323

    Guido of Arezzo

    Innovation in the Micrologus:
    - Four-line staff
    - Relative Pitch
    - Sight singing
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1485

    Josquin's Motet

    Ava Maria... virgo serena
  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale

    Ein feste burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God).
  • 1538

    Madrigal

    Arcadelt- Il bianco e dolce cigno
  • Victoria

    Missa O magnum Mysterium
  • Gabrieli

    Sonata pian'e forte Location: St. Mark's Cathedral
    -Abstract Instrumentation
    -Cornetto
    -Sackbut
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass (Publication)

    Significance:
    -6 voices
    -phrases are sung simultaneously rather through a point of imitation.
  • England Performances

    First public concerts.
  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi Op. 3

    L'estro armonica Published 1711 by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam
  • Rameau

    Traite de I'harmonie Published in 1722.
    Codified the practices of his contemporaries and became the basis for teaching functional harmony.
  • Bach

    Well Tempered Clavier Volume 1 - Published in 1722 Included 24 preludes and fugues with equal temperament.
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel

    Messiah Completed in 1741
    Premiered in 1742, in Dublin.
  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

  • Period: to

    Joseph Bologne Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Director of Concerts des Amateurs which was considered to be one of the finest orchestras in Europe at the time.
  • Mozart

    Don Giovanni
  • Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" Premiered in 1792.
  • Beethoven

    Symphony No.5 in C minor
  • Schubert

    Erlkönig
  • Paganini

    24 Caprices for violin, Op. 1
  • Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique
  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin

    Mazurkas Op.7 in Bb Major
  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hansel

    Das Jahr
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Souvenir de Porto Rico
  • Musorgsky

    *Pictures at an Exhibition"
    (Piano)
  • Bizet

    Carmen Premiere
  • Wagner

    Der Ring des Nibelungen Premiere
  • Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
  • Mahler

    Symphony No. 1 Premiere
  • Dvorak

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

    Symphony No. 5
  • Prokofiev

    Alexander Nevsky (Film)
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quatuor pour le fine du temps
  • Copland

    Appalachian Spring
  • John Cage

    4'33"
  • Edgard Varese

    Poeme Electronique
  • Miles Davis

    Kind of Blue
  • George Crumb

    Ancient Voices of Children
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine