Music timeline

Medieval

Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1475

musical techniques

500

pathos, use of emotion verismo, word painting, terraced dynamics, continuo, tutti, idee fixe.

plainsong, parallel organum, early songs about love

Mar 25, 1300

kyrie and gloria

Guillaume d'Amiens

Mar 25, 1301

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1476 to Dec 31, 1600

motets, madrigals, opera, fugue, concerto, sonata, symphony, sonata-allegro form, rondo form, coda, scherzo, art song, lieder

Period: Mar 25, 1500 to Mar 25, 1890

Spring the four seasons, adel tawil, orfeo, Singet dem herrnunser aff

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Mar 25, 1525

Michael Praetorius

Jan 15, 1571

Thomas Weelkes

Mar 25, 1576

Baroque

Period: Jan 1, 1601 to Dec 31, 1750

Antonio Vivaldi

Mar 25, 1678

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Mar 25, 1683

Johann Sebastian Bach

Mar 25, 1685

art song, lieder, program music program symphony, tone poem, opera, aria, opera buffa, opera seria, recitative.

Period: Mar 25, 1700 to Mar 25, 1900

orfeo, A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral or concert band music, usually in a single continuous section (a movement) that illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.

Franz Joseph Hadyn

Mar 25, 1732

Classical

Period: Jan 1, 1751 to Dec 31, 1820

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mar 25, 1756

Ludwig van Beethoven

Mar 25, 1820

Franz Schubert

Mar 25, 1820

Romantic

Period: Jan 1, 1821 to Dec 31, 1900

Richard Wagner

Mar 25, 1850

Hector Berlioz

Mar 25, 1860

Bedrich Smetana

Mar 25, 1880

Modes Mussorgsky

Mar 25, 1880

Giacomo Puccini

Mar 25, 1920

Guido d'Arezzo

Mar 2, 2022