Timeline 1: Middle Ages-Renaissance

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  • 476

    Fall of Rome, Medieval Period begins

  • 715

    Pope Gregory began ruling

  • 731

    Pope Gregory stopped ruling

  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Romanesque Era

    Polyphony emerges
  • 900

    the term "Organum" is created

  • 991

    Guido d'Arezzo is born

  • 1000

    music staff is invented by d'Arezzo

  • 1033

    Guido d'Arezzo dies

  • 1098

    Hildegard von Bingen is born

  • Period: 1150 to 1450

    Gothic Period

  • Period: 1150 to 1201

    Leonin Fluorishes

  • 1152

    Hildegard von Bingen releases Ordo Virtutum

  • 1155

    Raimbaut de Vaqueiras is born

  • Period: 1160 to 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen travels along Rhine River to teach and preach

  • 1170

    Leonin compiles Magnus Liber Organi

  • 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen dies

  • 1200

    Perotin Fluorishes

  • 1207

    Raimbaut de Vaqueiras dies

  • 1291

    Philippe de Vitry is born

  • 1300

    Guillaume de Machaut is born

  • Period: 1300 to 1350

    Ars nova

  • 1322

    Ars nove notandi is released

  • 1325

    Franceso Landini is born

  • 1340

    Bubonic Plague

  • 1350

    Machaut's "Puis qu'en oubli" is released

  • 1361

    Philippe de Vitry dies

  • 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut dies

  • 1386

    Donatello is born

  • 1386

    Donatello is born

  • 1390

    John Dunstable is born

  • 1397

    Franceso Landini dies

  • 1397

    Guillaume Dufay is born

  • 1420

    Johannes Ockeghem is born

  • 1430

    Renaissance Begins

  • 1435

    Johannes Tinctoris is born

  • 1444

    Sandro Botticelli is born

  • 1450

    Josquin des Prez is born

  • 1450

    Heinrich Isaac is born

  • 1450

    Printing press is invented

  • 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci is born

  • 1453

    John Dunstable dies

  • 1466

    Donatello dies

  • 1466

    Erasmus is born

  • 1474

    Guillaume Dufay dies

  • 1475

    Tinctoris wrote "Diffintorum musices"

  • 1475

    Michelangelo Buonarroti is born

  • 1483

    Raphael is born

  • 1483

    Martin Luther is born

  • 1488

    Tiziano Vecellio is born

  • Period: 1489 to 1494

    Josquin sang in the Sistine Chapel choir

  • 1490

    Adrian Willaert is born

  • 1495

    Da Vinci paints The Last Supper

  • 1497

    Johannes Ockeghem dies

  • 1499

    Buonarroti creates "Pieta"

  • Period: 1500 to 1530

    Frottola

    pop music of the time
  • 1503

    Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

  • 1504

    Josquin worked at Notre Dame

  • Period: 1504 to 1511

    Petrucci publishes 11 volumes of frottola

  • 1505

    Thomas Tallis is born

  • 1507

    Jacques Arcadelt is born

  • 1510

    Sandro Botticelli dies

  • 1510

    Josquin creates "Pange lingua"

  • 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris dies

  • 1514

    Raphael creates "Madonna della Tenda"

  • 1516

    Cipriano de Rore is born

  • 1517

    Heinrich Isaac dies

  • 1517

    Reformation begins (Luther)

  • 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci dies

  • 1520

    Raphael dies

  • 1521

    Josquin des Prez dies

  • 1521

    Philipp de Monte is born

  • 1525

    Palestrina is born

  • 1528

    Paolo Veronese is born

  • 1530

    Italian Madrigal originates in Florence

  • 1532

    Orlando di Lasso is born

  • 1536

    Erasmus dies

  • 1543

    William Byrd is born

  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    The Council of Trent

  • 1546

    Martin Luther dies

  • 1548

    Tomas Luis de Victoria is born

  • 1549

    Bagpipes are invented

  • 1557

    Giovanni Gabrieli is born

  • 1557

    Thomas Morley is born

  • 1562

    Adrian Willaert dies

  • 1564

    Shakespeare is born

  • 1564

    Michelangelo Buonarroti dies

  • 1564

    Galileo is born

  • 1565

    Cipriano de Rore dies

  • 1567

    Palestrina publishes "Pope Marcellus Mass"

  • 1567

    Claudio Monteverdi is born

  • 1568

    Jacques Arcadelt dies

  • 1570

    John Farmer is born

  • 1575

    Thomas Weelkes is born

  • 1576

    Tiziano Vecellio dies

  • Thomas Tallis dies

  • Gabrieli moves to Venice to play organ at St. Marks Cathedral

  • Paolo Veronese dies

  • Palestrina dies

  • Orlando di Lasso dies

  • Gabrieli publishes "Canzona soptimi toni"

  • Farmer publishes "Fair Phyllis"

  • Baroque period begins

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