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Period: 500 to 1450
Medieval
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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
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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
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Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
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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
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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
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Period: to
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Handel
Messiah Completed in 1741
Premiered in 1742, in Dublin. -
Period: to
WA Mozart
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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