Timeline 1

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  • Period: 991 BCE to 1033 BCE

    Guido d' Arezzo

    -Credited with inventing the staff
    -Red line for F and Yellow line for C
    -Diastematic Notation
  • 476 BCE

    The Fall of Rome

    -Beginning of Medieval Era
  • Period: 476 BCE to 1435 BCE

    The Middle Ages

    -Slow change in every aspect of life
    -2 Views on music. Divine and Cosmic
  • Period: 476 BCE to 1435 BCE

    Plainchant

    -Monophonic sacred song
    -Unaccompanied
    -Limited Range
    -Free Rhythm
    -Used 8 church modes
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen

    -Founder and abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg, Germany
    -Wrote liturgical dramas and religious poetry
    -First female composer in contemporary musicology to receive extensive scholarly research
    -Pioneer for women composers
    -Wrote poems too
    -Music was not Gregorian Chant
  • 1140

    Hildegard Began writing liturgical poetry

  • 1147

    Hildegard moved with 18 nuns to Rupertsberg near Bingen

  • 1150

    Hildegard Collected manuscripts

    -began to collect the manuscripts of works for use in the convent.
  • Period: 1160 to 1179

    Hildegards travels

    -spent her time traveling along the Rhine river preaching and teaching which was forbidden for women.