timeline 1: renaissance

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  • Period: 476 to 1430

    Medieval Era

    Fall of Rome + start of middle ages
  • Period: 715 to 731

    Gregorian Chant

    The roman dialect of chant
    Cataloged by Pope Gregory
  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Romanesque Period

  • Period: 900 to

    Organum

    Plainchant "melody" with an added melody what resulted was a musically sung piece of parallel 4ths and 5ths with dissonant 3rds and the thirds should not be used multiple forms
  • Period: 904 to

    invention of gunpowder

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido d'Arezzo

    Created the music staff
  • Period: 1150 to 1450

    Gothic Period

  • Period: 1346 to

    Bubonic plague

    Called the Great mortality due to its utter devastation it caused, eventually became known as the black plague in the late 17th century
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

    English, but had a influence in European musical style. prominent use of thirds and sixths
  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Dufay

    First Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1400 to 1450

    Puisque M'Amore

    Attributed to Dunstable in two separate sources. Rondeau (forme fixe) for three voices
  • Period: 1420 to 1450

    Johannes Ockeghem

    Very respected and prolific, also a low bass
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance Era

    New complex currents of thought concerning;
    Arts
    Science
    Religion
  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

    Composer and music theorist who wrote about contemporary music and wrote the first dictionary for musical terms
  • Period: 1436 to

    Printing press

  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Heinrich Isaac

    Prolific German composer
  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin des Pres

    Most revered renaissance composer. extremely emotionally filled music and was so popular that others would try to pass his music off as theirs
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Introducing the viola organista, an incredible instrument conceived by renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci
  • Period: 1480 to 1480

    Ave Maria

    Motet for four voices
    thinking about motives and imitation
    opening motive is derived from the chant melody
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Adrian Willaert

    Father of text expression
  • Period: 1504 to 1511

    Frottola

    Pop music of the later renaissance
  • Period: 1510 to 1510

    Prange lingua Mass

  • Period: 1521 to

    Phillipp de Monte

    Most prolific composer of the renaissance
  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    The most famous composer of the renaissance
    Used polyphony and showed he could make any texture understood
  • Period: 1531 to

    The Lutheran Liturgy

    The catholic church excommunicated Martin Luther. chants still important, they served as cantus firmi (cantus Firmus)
  • Period: 1532 to

    Orlando di Lasso

    Ranks in importance with Josquin and Palestrina
  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

    Important Catholic English composer working in protestant England, a roman catholic living in protestant England.
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    The Council Of Trent

    Catholic music reforms, set new guide lines for music and musicians
  • Period: 1548 to

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    Carries on Palestrina's style while working in Spain
  • Period: 1557 to

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    The leading composer of instrumental ensemble music and polychoral works in the late renaissance
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare

    Lived into the early baroque- Many renaissance style songs were composed for his plays
  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Moved music from renaissance style to baroque
    Composed many operas during the baroque era
  • Period: 1567 to 1567

    Pope Marcellus Mass

    Supposedly written to satisfy the Council of trent
    6 A cappella voices
    Polyphonic and Homorhythmic
    "Gloria"
  • Period: 1570 to

    John Farmer

    English composer active in Dublin and London