-
Use Cases
-
Resources
-
Pricing
500 - 1450
% complete
1450 - 1600
% complete
1600 - 1750
% complete
1740 - 1810
% complete
1810 - 1910
% complete
1910 - 2000
% complete
480 - 524
% complete
Revered for his De institution musica (The Fundamentals of Music)
991 - 1033
% complete
Known for invention of solmization and the Guidonian hand.
1150 - 1201
% complete
Associated with Notre Dame
1160 - 1220
% complete
Dates approximate: Late 12th-early 13th
Added 1-2 extra voices to Leonin's works.
1240 - 1288
% complete
Known for musical plays.
1291 - 1361
% complete
Vocabulary terms: Isorhythm, Motet
1300 - 1377
% complete
Dates approximate.
Vocabulary terms: Ars nova, Hocket, Virelais
1390 - 1453
% complete
Known for 3-part settings
Vocabulary: Isorhythmic Motets, Mass Ordinary
1397 - 1474
% complete
Known for 4-part settings
Vocabulary: Fauxbourdon, plainchant, Magnificat, rondeaux
1420 - 1497
% complete
Also known as Jean de Ockeghem.
Characteristics: wider range, long phrases, elided cadences.
1494 - 1576
% complete
Famous meistersinger
1505 - 1585
% complete
Wrote only sacred music.
1525 - 1594
% complete
Wrote in 6-voice mass.
Characteristics: long, rhythmically varied, easy-to-sing lines in curves. Similar to plainchant, subtle text-painting
1540 - 1623
% complete
Vocabulary: Consort song, fantasia, motet
1555 - 1612
% complete
Earliest instances of dynamic markings in music
Vocabulary: Polychoral motet, ricercare, ensemble canzona, intonazioni
1567 - 1643
% complete
Wrote only vocal and dramatic works
Vocabulary: Madrigals
1678 - 1741
% complete
1685 - 1759
% complete
1685 - 1750
% complete
1732 - 1809
% complete
1756 - 1791
% complete
1770 - 1827
% complete
1803 - 1869
% complete
Symphonie Fantastique
Vocabulary: Idee fixe
1810 - 1849
% complete
1811 - 1886
% complete
1813 - 1883
% complete
1833 - 1897
% complete
1838 - 1875
% complete
1839 - 1881
% complete
1840 - 1893
% complete
1860 - 1911
% complete
1862 - 1918
% complete
1873 - 1943
% complete
1874 - 1951
% complete
1875 - 1937
% complete
1882 - 1971
% complete
1883 - 1945
% complete
1885 - 1935
% complete
1891 - 1953
% complete
1910 - 1981
% complete
1912 - 1992
% complete
1937 - 2014
% complete
1175
% complete
Date approximate. Collection of 2 voice settings of solo portions of responsorial chants.
Related composers: Leonin, Perotin
1284
% complete
Musical play by Adam de la Halle
1320
% complete
Date unknown.
Motet by Philippe de Vitry.
1364
% complete
Date unknown (possibly coronation of French Charles V in 1364)
Mass composed by Guillaume de Machaut.
1600
% complete
1543 - 1563
% complete
Attempts were made to restrict polyphonic music, for religious services to remain simple and pure. End result was very vague leaving specifics of restrictions to local bishops.