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HISTORY - TIME LINE


Antiquity -- Creation - 610
Acceptnce of Cristianity
Fall of Rome
Ptolomy
Pope Gregory I
Early Middle Ages -- 610 - 850
Mohammed
Hucbald
Russia Founded
Normandy Founded
Romanesque -- 850 - 1150
Guido d'Arezzo
First Crusade
Ottoman Empire
Early Gothic -- 1150 - 1300
Leonin
Perotin
Late Gothic -- 1300 - 1450
Hundred Years War
The Great Plague
Guillaume de Machuat
John Dunstable
Johannes Ockegham
Renaissance -- 1450 - 1550
Jacob Obrecht
Josquin Desprez
Michelangelo
Rapheal
Rise of Lutheranism
English Reformation

Palestrina

Late Renaissance -- 1550 - 1600

Zarlino
Elizabeth I of England
Shakesspeare
Phillip II of Spain

Baroque -- 1600 - 1750

Louis XIV
Thirty years War
Edmund Halley
Isaac Newton
John Milton

Vivaldi
Rameau

J.S. Bach

Handel
Peter the Great of Russia
Rococo -- 1725 - 1775

Classical -- 1750 - 1830

Mozart

Haydn
French Revolution

C.P.E. Bach

Beethoven

Romantic -- 1800 - 1910
American Civil War
-Industrial revolution
Mendelssohn

Berlioz

Robert Schumann

Brahms

Verdi

Wagner

Musorgsky

Rimsky-Korsakov

Tchaikovsky

Mahler

Strauss

Debussy
Monet

Modern -- 1900 - 1945

Scriabin

Picasso

Schoenberg

Webern

Berg

Ives
-World War I
-World War II
Post-Modern -- 1945 - Present
-Cold War
-Vietnam War
-Electronic Age

Berio

Crumb

Cage

Babbitt

*This list is by no means complete, it merely gives a feel for the most influential events and people and when they were most notable. The names and events are in no specific order of importance.

Schools of Music

St. Martial -- 10th -12th centuries

Notre Dame -- Early 13th Century

Ars Antiqua -- Mid to Late 13th Century

Ars Nova -- 14th Century

Burgundian -- Early 15th Century

Flemish -- Mid 15th to Late 16th Century

Venetian -- Late 16th Century

Roman -- Late 16th to Early 18th Centuries

Bologna -- late 17th Century

Neapolitan -- Late 17th to Mid 18th Century

Mannheim -- Mid 18th Century

Berlin -- Late 18th Century

Viennese -- Late 18th to Early 19th Century

Nationalism -- Late 19th Century

Impressionism -- Early 20th Century

Expressionism -- Early 20th Century

Second Viennese -- Early 20th Century

Neoclassicism -- Early to Mid 20th Century

Experimentalism -- Late 20th Century

Indeterminacy -- Late 20th Century

Jazz--20th Century

-- All dates are general time periods. There is no exact dates or times determining when styles change.

  
 

 

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