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476
Fall of Rome, Medieval Period begins
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715
Pope Gregory began ruling
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731
Pope Gregory stopped ruling
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Period: 850 to 1150
Romanesque Era
Polyphony emerges -
900
the term "Organum" is created
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991
Guido d'Arezzo is born
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1000
music staff is invented by d'Arezzo
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1033
Guido d'Arezzo dies
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1098
Hildegard von Bingen is born
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Period: 1150 to 1450
Gothic Period
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Period: 1150 to 1201
Leonin Fluorishes
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1152
Hildegard von Bingen releases Ordo Virtutum
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1155
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras is born
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Period: 1160 to 1179
Hildegard von Bingen travels along Rhine River to teach and preach
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1170
Leonin compiles Magnus Liber Organi
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1179
Hildegard von Bingen dies
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1200
Perotin Fluorishes
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1207
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras dies
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1291
Philippe de Vitry is born
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1300
Guillaume de Machaut is born
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Period: 1300 to 1350
Ars nova
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1322
Ars nove notandi is released
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1325
Franceso Landini is born
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1340
Bubonic Plague
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1350
Machaut's "Puis qu'en oubli" is released
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1361
Philippe de Vitry dies
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1377
Guillaume de Machaut dies
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1386
Donatello is born
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1386
Donatello is born
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1390
John Dunstable is born
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1397
Franceso Landini dies
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1397
Guillaume Dufay is born
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1420
Johannes Ockeghem is born
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1430
Renaissance Begins
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1435
Johannes Tinctoris is born
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1444
Sandro Botticelli is born
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1450
Josquin des Prez is born
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1450
Heinrich Isaac is born
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1450
Printing press is invented
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1452
Leonardo da Vinci is born
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1453
John Dunstable dies
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1466
Donatello dies
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1466
Erasmus is born
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1474
Guillaume Dufay dies
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1475
Tinctoris wrote "Diffintorum musices"
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1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti is born
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1483
Raphael is born
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1483
Martin Luther is born
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1488
Tiziano Vecellio is born
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Period: 1489 to 1494
Josquin sang in the Sistine Chapel choir
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1490
Adrian Willaert is born
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1495
Da Vinci paints The Last Supper
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1497
Johannes Ockeghem dies
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1499
Buonarroti creates "Pieta"
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Period: 1500 to 1530
Frottola
pop music of the time -
1503
Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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1504
Josquin worked at Notre Dame
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Period: 1504 to 1511
Petrucci publishes 11 volumes of frottola
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1505
Thomas Tallis is born
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1507
Jacques Arcadelt is born
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1510
Sandro Botticelli dies
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1510
Josquin creates "Pange lingua"
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1511
Johannes Tinctoris dies
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1514
Raphael creates "Madonna della Tenda"
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1516
Cipriano de Rore is born
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1517
Heinrich Isaac dies
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1517
Reformation begins (Luther)
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1519
Leonardo da Vinci dies
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1520
Raphael dies
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1521
Josquin des Prez dies
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1521
Philipp de Monte is born
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1525
Palestrina is born
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1528
Paolo Veronese is born
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1530
Italian Madrigal originates in Florence
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1532
Orlando di Lasso is born
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1536
Erasmus dies
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1543
William Byrd is born
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Period: 1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
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1546
Martin Luther dies
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1548
Tomas Luis de Victoria is born
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1549
Bagpipes are invented
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1557
Giovanni Gabrieli is born
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1557
Thomas Morley is born
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1562
Adrian Willaert dies
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1564
Shakespeare is born
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1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies
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1564
Galileo is born
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1565
Cipriano de Rore dies
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1567
Palestrina publishes "Pope Marcellus Mass"
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1567
Claudio Monteverdi is born
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1568
Jacques Arcadelt dies
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1570
John Farmer is born
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1575
Thomas Weelkes is born
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1576
Tiziano Vecellio dies
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Thomas Tallis dies
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Gabrieli moves to Venice to play organ at St. Marks Cathedral
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Paolo Veronese dies
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Palestrina dies
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Orlando di Lasso dies
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Gabrieli publishes "Canzona soptimi toni"
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Farmer publishes "Fair Phyllis"
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Baroque period begins