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476
Fall of Rome
The fall of Rome is when the Middle Ages began. -
715
Genre: Gregorian Chant
Reorganized by Pope Gregory -
Period: 991 to 1033
Musician: Guido of Arezzo
Music Theory
Created precise pitch notation on a staff. -
Period: 1071 to 1126
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Composer of the first morality play. -
Period: 1135 to 1201
Leonin (Leoninus)
Master of organum purum at the Cathedral at Notre Dame.
Magnus Liber -
Period: 1140 to 1200
Composer: Bernart de Ventadorn
Famous troubadour poet. -
1152
Genre: Mystery plays
Invented by Hildegard -
Period: 1170 to 1230
Walther von der Vogelwiede
Poet and Mennesinger -
Period: 1180 to 1238
Perotin
Master of discant organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. -
Period: 1250 to 1288
Composer: Adam de la Halle
Wrote polyphony and studied in Paris -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Composer: Guillame Du Fay
First important renaissance composer
Franco-Flemish -
Period: 1430 to
Renaissance
Means rebirth
Changes in art came from Italy but the musical style came from England -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music -
Period: 1455 to 1521
Composer: Josquin des Prez
Considered by Martin Luther to be "best composer of our time" -
Period: 1466 to 1539
Inventor: Ottaviano Petrucci
First music printer and publisher; Preserved renaissance music for us today. -
Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran Church -
Period: 1516 to
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Became an icon of Renaissance music for future generations; Roman style. -
Period: 1534 to
Composer: Count Giovanni Bardi
Leader of the Florentine Camerata in the late 1570s -
Period: 1540 to
Composer: William Byrd
English
Catholic composer writing both Protestant and Catholic music in English. greatest English Composer of his time -
Period: 1553 to
Composer: Luca Marenzio
The lead madrigal composer of the late 16th century -
Period: 1558 to
Composer: Thomas Morley
English
Contributed to the development of the English Madrigal. -
Period: 1561 to
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Known for his chromaticism. -
Period: 1567 to
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Took music into a new style
Second practica from the prima practica -
Period: 1576 to
Musician: Thomas Weelkes
English organist; excessive drinking was a problem for him