Music History Timeline Project

By Garrett.clay411
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 800 to 814

    Charlemagne’s Reign

  • 900

    Musica Enchiriadis

    Describes motions within music (oblique and contrary)
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo’s Micrologus

    Little treatise
    Solfege (Solmization) on hexachord system
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

  • Period: 1100 to 1350

    Troubadour/Trobairitz

  • Period: 1163 to 1190

    Notre Dame School Polyphony (Leonin)

  • Period: 1190 to 1225

    Notre Dame School Polyphony (Perotin)

  • Period: 1215 to 1270

    Franco of Cologne/Ars Canctus Mensurabilis

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Time. Prolation
  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Francesco Landini

  • 1450

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • 1515

    Josquin's Missa Pange lingua

  • 1529

    Martin Luther's Ein feste burg

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

  • Period: 1580 to

    Concerto delle donne

    Ferrara, Italy

  • Sonata pian'e forte

    -Composed by Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612)
    -St. Mark's Cathedral
    -first to specify both instrumentation and dynamics
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    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

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    JS Bach

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    Handel

  • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico

  • Brandenburg Concertos

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

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    Pre Classical Period

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Period: to

    Ludwig van Beethoven

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    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets

  • Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

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    Haydn's London Symphonies

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    Franz Schubert

  • Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor

  • Schubert's Erlkönig

  • Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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

  • Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"

  • Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor

  • Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

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    Frederic Chopin's Mazurkas Op. 7

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    Robert Schumann's Carnaval

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Das Jahr

  • Clara Wieck Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit"

  • Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation

  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64

  • Verdi's La traviata

  • Period: to

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

  • Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov

  • Bizet's Carmen

  • Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1 "Titan"

  • Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

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

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

  • Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia

  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly

  • Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire

  • Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps

  • Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

  • Ellington's Cottontail

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Copland's Appalachian Spring

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edgar Varese's Poeme electronique

  • Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

  • George Crumb's Black Angels

  • John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine