Musica Theoria -- Historical Periods

Historical Periods

General Periods

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

* More an art period than a musical one.

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 -- 10^th -12^th centuries

Notre Dame -- Early 13^th Century

Ars Antiqua -- Mid to Late 13^th Century

Ars Nova -- 14^th Century

Burgundian -- Early 15^th Century

Flemish -- Mid 15^th to Late 16^th Century

Venetian -- Late 16^th Century

Roman -- Late 16^th to Early 18^th Centuries

Bologna -- late 17^th Century

Neapolitan -- Late 17^th to Mid 18^th Century

Mannheim -- Mid 18^th Century

Berlin -- Late 18^th Century

Viennese -- Late 18^th to Early 19^th Century

Nationalism -- Late 19^thCentury

Impressionism -- Early 20^th Century

Expressionism -- Early 20^th Century

Second Viennese -- Early 20th Century

Neoclassicism -- Early to Mid 20^th Century

Experimentalism -- Late 20^th Century

Indeterminacy -- Late 20^th Century

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

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