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1000 BCE
Bagpipes invented
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Period: 570 BCE to 495 BCE
Pythagoras
the greek founder of music theory. considered first pure mathematician -
476
Organum
first type of polyphony in western music. church music -
Period: 991 to 1033
Guido of Arrezo
music theorist, he is credited with creating a system of precise pitch notation. lines and spaces on a staff. proposed sight singing with syllables -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard von bingen
composer of first morality play. known as Sybil of rhine. writer composer theologist. -
Period: 1135 to 1201
Leonin
master of organum at cathedral of Notre dame -
Period: 1300 to 1350
the ars nova in france
new techniques like isorhythm and hocket -
Period: 1300 to 1390
the trecento in italy
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Period: 1397 to 1474
guillamue du fay
Franco Flemish, first important renaissance composer. used older medieval techniques. -
Period: 1400 to 1460
Gills Binchois
2nd important composer, served the duke of burgundy -
Period: 1410 to 1497
johannes ockeghem
bass singer and important teacher. lots of masses and chansons -
1430
Important Familes in the Renaissance
De' Medici Family
Sforza Family
D'este Dukes
Gonzaga Family -
Period: 1430 to
Renaissance
secular music became more poplar, polyphony was used most often -
Period: 1450 to 1521
josquin des prez
considered best composer of our time and master of notes. french -
Period: 1521 to
phillipe de monte
at venice and prague courts. religious. Franco Flemish -
1570
Requiem
a mass written for a person who just died. the latin mass requiem was standardized in 1570.