Music History Timeline

  • Period: 2800 BCE to

    Oboe

    4 composers of the Oboe are, Ronald Roseman, Ruth Gipps, Rory Boyle and Bert Lucarelli. The shifts from playing the Oboe from 1681 to 2000 changes drastically. There is the baroque and the classical styles form those 2 different periods. The oboe produces sounds by causing a column of air to vibrate. The baroque oboe's sound is less compact and more plaintive than that of the classic one.
    Baroque:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndEKkGoeh5Q
    Classical:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcjZv6OZup8
  • Period: 2500 BCE to

    Harp

    4 composers of the Harp are, Marcel Tournier, Carlos Salzedo, Elias Parish, and Turlough O'carolan. The 2 different styles of the harp between 1808 to 1957 was classical and renaissance. These were both a little similar because of the smoothing and calming sounds the music was
    Classical:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9lpvXcXZw.
    Renaissance:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwo8y3l2IM
  • Period: 1700 BCE to

    Tambourine

    4 composers of the tambourine are, Glen Velez, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Berlioz. 2 types of styles they way the tambourine was played were blues and jazz in between the late 1700s to the early 2000s. Blues and Jazz are also similar, just that jazz is a little more upbeat than blues.
    Blues:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_q-frgTxl4
    Jazz:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9lUmgCyFU
  • Period: 1500 BCE to

    Trumpet

    4 composers of the Trumpet are, Giuseppe Torelli, Henry Purcell, Goerge Phillipp, and Peitro. The 2 different styles the Trumpet was played between 1767 and 2000 is Baroque and Jazz. Baroque was more of a fancy type of style of music, and jazz is also soothing, but something to enjoy while its not as boring as Baroque.
    Baroque:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24w_ykmwD4
    Jazz:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zsQh8W4G40
  • Period: 1000 BCE to

    Fiddle

    4 composers of the Fiddle were, James Scott, Paddy Fahey, James Hill, and Ed Reavy. 2 styles played with the Fiddle would be contemporary and maritimes. They are both really different pieces of music, these styles were played mostly in the late 1800s, and from there the Fiddle has been played up until this day.
  • Period: 900 BCE to

    Flute

    4 composers of the flute are, Philippe Gaubert, Lili Boulanger, Anne Boyd, and Mozart. The type of music played with the salute would be classical and jazz. These two genres we the most popular in the 1900s, and jazz is still popular now.
  • Period: 200 BCE to

    Cymbals

    4 composers of the Cymbals are Melvin Sokoloff, Steve Jordan, Kendrick Scott, and Steve Gadd. Cymbals are usual used for orchestra and heavy medal bands, these were around by the 1900s - 2000s, and are very different genres and time periods for these 2 types of music.
    Orchestra:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rFyPGd95U
    Heavy Medal:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD58blKgsUQ
  • Period: 1450 to

    Trumbone

    4 composers of the Trumbone are Charles Peter, Douglas Yeo, Steven Sacco, and John Kenny. Trumbones are usual used for woodwind music and pop music, these were around by the 2000s - present, and are very different genres and time periods for these 2 types of music. Pop is the most popular now of days
  • Period: 1550 to

    Cello

    4 composers of the Cello are Aiden Vass, Edward Elang, Carlo Alfredo, and Cammile Saint. Cellos are usual used for rock and contemporary music, these were around by the 1950s - 2000s, and are very different genres and time periods for these 2 types of music. Contemporary music is more fancier than rock, obviously.
  • Period: 1560 to

    Violin

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
    https://www.biography.com/musicians/wolfgang-mozart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYeo66y-sI
  • Period: to

    Bassoon

    Peter Schickele was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix. From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P.D.Q. He was born 1935. https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/honor-composer-and-satirist-peter-schickele-%E2%80%9957-h%E2%80%9980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjS6g3sdgPc
  • Period: to

    Clarinet

    Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper. He was born November 18, 1786. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Maria-von-Weber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQA2t2EVbUw
  • Period: to

    English Horn

    Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. He was born October 1, 1865 in Paris, France.
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Abraham-Dukas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneUNq_Ndbw
  • Period: to

    French Horn

    Richard Bissill is a French horn player, composer and arranger, and Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.He studied horn and piano at the Royal Academy of Music before joining the London Symphony Orchestra aged 22. He was Principal Horn of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1984-2009 https://wells.cathedral.school/staff/richard-bissill-french-horn/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4mXsiKapO4
  • Period: to

    Cornet

    Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz. He was born September 6, 1877 in New Orleans, LA.
    https://www.neworleans.com/things-to-do/music/history-and-traditions/buddy-bolden/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03wYBj1QFE
  • Period: to

    Tuba

    Stephen Caudel is a British composer and guitarist. He studied at Leeds College of Music where he took a specialist course in Classical and Jazz music and then moved to London to work as a composer and performer.
    https://www.cd-services.com/artist_profile.aspx?id=17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMt8VHacsD4
  • Period: to

    Guitar

    Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana. The band has undergone various recording and performing line-ups in its history, with Santana being the only consistent member.
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Santana-musical-group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wT1s96JIb0
  • Period: to

    Xylophone

    Camille Saint-Saëns was a composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems—the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman, and for his opera Samson et Dalila. Saint-Saëns was notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music. He was born October 9, 1835 in Paris, France.
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Camille-Saint-Saens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM
  • Period: to

    Bass Drum

    Louie Bellson, often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums. He was born July 6, 1924 in Rock Falls IL. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louie-Bellson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1P6VDY3yh0