The History of Music - 2

Hoday,

You may be wondering why I am posting all of these blogs on the same day...well, I've been writing but not posting. There you go so here it is.

The following points are just a summary to lead us up to the 1300s.

Medieval period - 313 A.D. through 1150 A.D.

World Events:
Contstantine 313 A.D. Edict of Milan, Destruction of Rome 455, Code of Justinian 1 529, Rule of St. Benedict 530, Reign of Pope Gregory 1 590-605, Charlemagne becomes Holy Roman Emperor 800, Norman conquest of Britain 1066, First Crusade 1096-1099, First Universities founded in Paris, Bologna, and Oxford 1150

Music and Musicians: 700 Liturgy of Office, 900 First classicifcation of Pslam Tones, 1000 Troping, Sequences, Parallel organum, Notker Balbulus, 1200 Mass liturgy completed, Solmization, Staff Notation, Free organum, Goliard songs, Conductus, Guido of Arezzo, 1098-1179 Hildegard von Bingen, 1100-1200 Troubador Songs, Melismatic organum, 1150-1300 Trouvére songs, Minnelieder

Figures in the Arts and Humanities: 500 St. Ambrose, 354-430 St. Augustine, 600 Martianus Capella, 480-524 Boethius, 480-527 St. Benedict, 540-604 Pope Gregory, 1075-1142 Abelard

Middle Ages 1163-1364

World Events: 1163-1250 Cathedral of Notre Dame built in Paris, 1189-1199 Reign of Richard the Lionhearted, 1215 Magna Carta

Music and Musicians: 1163-1190 Notre Dame School, Leonin, 1200 Perotin, Motet, 1291-1361 Phillipe de Vitry, 1300-1377 Guillaume de Machant

Figures in the Arts and Humanities: 1225-1274 Thomas Aquinas, 1265-1321 Dante Alighiee, 1267-1337 Giotto di Bondone

Let's begin at this point we're going to begin the next series with The Great Schism and The Black Plague.

Later,

John