Timeline One: Medieval & Renaissance (476-1600)

  • 476

    The Fall of Rome

  • Period: 476 to 1435

    The Middle Ages

  • Period: 476 to 1450

    Medieval Period

  • Period: 715 to 731

    Pope Gregory

    Ruled btw
  • 800

    Polyphony/Notation began to emerge

  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Romanesque Era

  • Period: 850 to 1150

    Early Polyphony

  • 900

    Organum 1st described

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido d'Arezzo

    Diastematic Notation
    Credited with "inventing" the staff
  • 1000

    Music Staff Invented

  • 1000

    Organum notated

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    first crusade

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildgard von Bingen

  • Period: 1150 to 1450

    Gothic Period

  • Period: 1150 to 1201

    Leonin

  • Period: 1155 to 1207

    Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

  • Period: 1160 to 1230

    Perotin

  • 1290

    The Medieval Motet

    late 1200
  • Period: 1291 to 1361

    Philippe de Vitry

  • Period: 1300 to 1350

    The Ars Nova

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

  • Period: 1320 to 1400

    Motet rhythm became very complex

  • 1322

    Treatise Ars Nova notandi=the new art of notes

  • Period: 1325 to 1397

    Frencesco Landini

  • Period: 1347 to 1352

    The Bubonic Plague "Black Death"

  • Period: 1386 to 1466

    Donatello

  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Dufay

  • Period: 1420 to 1497

    Johannes Ockeghem

  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

  • Period: 1444 to 1510

    Sandro Botticelli

  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin des Perez

  • Period: 1450 to 1517

    Heinrich Isaac

  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Period: 1466 to 1536

    Erasmus

  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Muchelangelo

  • Period: 1483 to 1520

    Raphael

  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Adrian Willaert

  • Period: 1500 to 1539

    Frottola

    pop music
  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Tallis

  • 1517

    Protastent Reformation

  • Period: 1521 to

    Phillip de Monte

  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

  • 1530

    Italian Madrigal

  • Period: 1530 to

    Madrigals

  • Period: 1532 to

    Orlando di Lasso

  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    The Council of Trent

  • Period: 1548 to

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

  • Period: 1557 to

    Giovanni Gabrieli

  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespear

  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo

  • Period: 1570 to

    John Farmer

  • John Dunstable works published