Music Timeline Project

By kiya.brown2019
  • Period: 500 to 1450

    Medieval Period

    The time frame of the Medival Period.
  • 1030

    Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus

    Micrologus helped develop our modern-day solfege, four-line staff, and sight-singing.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Birth and death date
  • 1323

    Ars Nova Treatise

    Rhythmic notation became a new characteristic of the music era. Also, more composers began to write music using notes with smaller values.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance Period

    The time frame of the Renaissance Period.
  • 1515

    Josquin’s Ave Maria ... virgo serena Motet

  • 1529

    Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress..)

  • 1538

    Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno

  • 1567

    Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass

    Introduced new rules for composing music, including step-wise melodic motions, and incorporating dissonance in harmonization.

  • Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium

  • Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte

  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

  • First Public Concerts in England

  • Period: to

    JS Bach

  • Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico

    Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico launched the popularity of the Italian concerto throughout Europe.

  • Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie

    Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie codified the practices of his contemporaries and became the basis for teaching functional harmony.

  • Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1

    There were two separate publications; each had 24 preludes and fugues in each minor and major key. This demonstrated the possibilities for playing in all keys using an instrument tuned in near-equal temperament.
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    PreClassical Period

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn's birth and death dates

  • Handel's Messiah

  • Period: to

    WA Mozart

    Mozart's birth and death dates
  • Period: to

    Viennese Classical Period

  • Period: to

    Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs

  • Mozart's Don Giovanni

  • Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" premiered in London on March 23, 1792. However, Haydn composed the symphony in 1791.

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor

    Premiere date

  • Schubert Erlkonig

    Composition date

  • Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Premiere date.

  • Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1

    Complete first publication

  • Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

    Composition date.
  • Period: to

    Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7

    Composition date range

  • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr

    Composition Date

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico

  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

    Original piano version

  • Bizet's Carmen

    Premiere date.

  • Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

    Premiere of complete cycle

  • Brahms' Symphony No. 4

    Premiere date.

  • Mahler's Symphony No. 1

    Premiere date.

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

    Premiered in New York City

  • Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)

  • Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)

  • Claude Debussy "Voiles" from Preludes Book 1

  • Arnold Schonberg "Pierrot Lunaire"

  • Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)

  • Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)

  • Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25

  • Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"

  • George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm”

  • Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

  • Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere

  • Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)

  • Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps

  • Duke Ellington "Cottontail"

  • Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

  • Aaron Copland "Appalachian Spring"

  • John Cage "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano"

  • John Cage's 4’33’’

  • Edward Varese Poeme Electronique

  • Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

  • George Crumb "Ancient Voices of Children"

  • John Adams "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"