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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1400
Instruments
The creation of new musical instruments allowed for music to progress into what it is today. -
Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1400
Genres
the creation of different genres allowed for different styles of music to be created. -
Jan 1, 600
Musicians
Priests were the most important muscians during the middle ages. -
Jan 1, 1000
Musical notations
The notation allowed for music to be written down and passed on to others. -
Jan 1, 1000
Drama
Darma and plays allowed for alot of musical chances and allowed for actors to be able to play a role in history -
Jan 1, 1066
1066 A.D. Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings and the defeat of Harold Godwinson -
Jan 1, 1086
1086 A.D.
The completion of the Doomsday book. -
Jan 1, 1087
1087 A.D.
William invades Whales and builds castles on the border. -
Feb 1, 1150
Midieval Games
Medieval Games allowed for excitement and helped many people forget about their problems and find some fun in their life -
Jan 1, 1300
Black Plague
The black plague stretched across Europe and affected mostly all of the europian nations. -
Oct 4, 1348
Black Death
the Black Death streched the lands of Europe during the Renaissance time period -
Oct 4, 1400
Religion
Huge during this time period and it was expressed in everything; writing, art, sculptures, ect. -
Oct 1, 1450
Genres
Common sacred genres were the mass, the motet, the madrigale spirituale, and the laude. -
Oct 1, 1460
Dance
Took a huge step forward during the Renaissance time period. -
Oct 3, 1500
Brass and strings
used for the first time during thr Renaissance time period -
Oct 4, 1500
Theory
Renaissance compositions were notated only in individual parts; scores were extremely rare, and barlines were not used. -
Oct 4, 1500
Art
Art took a huge step forward during the Renaissance time period. -
Oct 4, 1500
Humanism
In some ways Humanism was not a philosophy per se, but rather a method of learning. In contrast to the medieval scholastic mode, which focused on resolving contradictions between authors, humanists would study ancient texts in the original, and appraise them through a combination of reasoning and empirical evidence. -
Oct 4, 1550
Percussion and woodwinds
Were used for the first time during the Reniassance -
Oct 4, 1550
style and trends
The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance is one of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music. -
Shakespeare
an important writer of the Renaissacne time period -
Famous composers
Composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Purcell. -
Syles and Form
Baroque music shares with Renaissance music a heavy use of polyphony and counterpoint. However, its use of these techniques differs from Renaissance music. -
Baroque time Period
The term Baroque era describes the style or period of European music between the years of 1600 and 1750. The term Baroque was derived from a Portuguese word meaning "a pearl of irregular shape." -
Opera
It is also important to note that opera and the orchestra were both conceived during the Baroque era as well. Around 1600, opera came about because Italian intellectuals wanted to recapture the spirit of ancient Greek drama in which music played a key role. -
Practices
The practice of the baroque era was the standard against which new composition was measured, and there came to be a division between sacred works, which held more closely to the Baroque style from secular or "profane" works, which were in the new style. -
Orchestra
As a companion for operatic and vocal music, the orchestra evolved. By the mid-1600s the orchestra was growing into its own entity and the concerto was one of the most popular forms of music performed. -
Church
The Catholic countries of central Europe, the baroque style continued to be represented in sacred music through the end of the eighteenth century, in much the way that the stile antico of the Renaissance continued to live in the sacred music of the early 17th century. -
Composers continued
In England, the enduring popularity of Handel ensured the success of Charles Avison, William Boyce, and Thomas Arne — among other accomplished imitators — well into the 1780s, who competed alongside Mozart and Bach. -
Music during Baroque
It was considered an old-fashioned way of writing and was a requisite for graduation from the burgeoning number of conservatories of music, and otherwise reserved only for use in sacred works. -
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame was founded in Paris, France. -
Period: to Jan 1, 604
Gregorian Chant
First popular chant, or type of music in the middle ages.
