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Music History
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30 Apr 2020
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St. Benedict writes "The Rule of St. Benedict" [516]
"Micrologus" (Gudio of Arezzo) [1026]
Musical notation improved by Guido of Arezzo [1000]
Development of organum, the first instance of polyphony [695]
"Viderunt Omnes" (Pérotin) [1198]
Beginning of troubadour and trouvere music in France [1125]
Declaration of "Magna Carta" [1215]
The Great Schism [1054]
"Roman de Fauvel" [1314/1317]
"Squarciulupi Codex" [1410/1415]
Development of mensural notation [? 1260]
Fall of Western Roman Empire [476]
Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt [1415]
"Ars Cantus Mensurabilis" [1250/1280]
"Ars Nova Notandi" (Philippe de Vitry) [1322]
"Old Hall Manuscript" [? < 1420]
"Nuper Rosarum Flores" (Dufay) [1436]
Missa L’homme Armé (Dufay) [? 1450]
"Ave Maria…Virgo Serena" (de Prez) [? 1475]
"Missa Pange Lingua" (de Prez) [? 1515]
"Harmonice Musices Odhecaton" (Petrucci) [1501]
"Ninety-five Theses" (Martin Luther) [1517]
Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press [1439]
Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper" [1495]
Michelangelo paints "The Sistine Chapel" [1512]
Columbus discovers the America's [1492]
Start of the Spainish Inquistion [1478]
Coronation of Queen Elizaveth I [1559]
"The Prince" (Machiavelli) [1514]
Missa Papae Marcelli (Palestrina) [? 1562]
“Il bianco e dolce cigno” (Jacques Arcadelt) [1538]
“Solo e pensoso” (Luca Marenzio) [1599]
"The Triumphs of Oriana" [1601]
"La Pellegrina" (Intermedi) [1589]
Orfeo e Euridice (Jacopo Peri) [1600]
Premier of Claudio Monteverdi’s "L'Orfeo" [1607]
Claudio Monteverdi moves to Venice [1613]
First public opera house (Teatro San Cassiano) [1637]
"L’Incoronazione di Poppea" (Monteverdi) [1643]
Ballet Royal de la Nuit [1653]
"Armide" (Lully) [1686]
"Suite for Harpsichord" (de La Guerre) [1687]
"Don Quixote" (Cervantes) [1605]
Periods
Carolingian Empire [800 - 888]
Ancient Greek musical notation system [600 B.C. - 400]
Non-diastemic neumatic notation system [801 - 900]
Hildegard von Bingen [1098 - 1179]
The prime of The Notre Dame school [1150 - 1250]
Development of Gregorian chant [590 - 604]
Pope Gregory the Great [540 - 604]
Léonin [? 1135 - 1201]
Pérotin [? 1160 - 1230]
Bernart de Ventadorn [? 1135 - 1194]
Guido of Arezzo [? 992 - 1033]
Franco of Cologne [? 1215 - 1270]
Philippe de Vitry [1291 - 1361]
Guillaume de Machaut [? 1300 - 1377]
Ars antiqua [1170 - 1310]
Ars nova [1310 - 1375]
Ars subtilior [? 1370 - 1395]
Francesco Landini [? 1325 - 1397]
Earliest instances of the sequence [801 - 900]
Music of the Trecento [1330 - 1417]
Gilles de Binchois [? 1400 - 1460]
Guillaume Dufay [? 1397 - 1474]
Johannes Ockeghem [? 1410/1425 - 1497]
Josquin des Prez [? 1450/1455 - 1521]
The Council of Trent [1545 - 1563]
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina [? 1525 - 1594]
Development of the Madrigal [? 1525 - 1620]
Phase 1 [? 1525 - 1550]
Phase 2 [? 1550 - 1580]
Phase 3 [? 1580 - 1620]
The Concerto delle donne [1580 - 1597]
The Monteverdi-Artusi Debate [? 1550-1600]
Reign of Louis XIV of France
Jean-Baptiste Lully [1632 - 1687]
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre [? 1665 - 1729]
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