This document provides a timeline and overview of the history of music and arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period. It discusses important figures like Pope Gregory I who systematized plainsong, the construction of landmarks like St. Mark's Basilica and Chartes Cathedral, innovations in musical notation by Guido d'Arrezo and Ars Nova style by Philippe de Vitry, and legendary composers such as Machaut, Dufay, da Vinci, Petrucci, Byrd, and Palestrina. The timeline highlights major developments in religion, architecture, music composition, and notation that helped advance and shape music during this era.

1. Music and Arts
The History

2. Objectives
• Discover the history of the most beautiful
music and arts of all times – from the Middle
Ages to the Modern Era
• Enjoy the melodies and learn about the
greatest composer.
• Appreciate the artist and their work of art.

3. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(Spiritually and Renewal)
[590 – 1543 ]
• Experience some of the most
spiritual music, contemplate
legendary troubadours and
minstrels, people and styles that
transport you to golden age when
religion and music were one.

4. The Timeline
• 590 – the papacy of Pope Gregory I, who wanted
to systematize plainsong. Begins; Gregorian chant
erroneously takes his name.
• 828 – construction begins on the Basilica of St.
Mark in Venice
• 1036 – Guido d’Arrezo writes Micrologus, creating
musical notation, based on musical staff.
• 1150 – around this time, polyphony flourishes in
Europe.
• 1198 – Perotin composes the first musical work
for four voices, Viderunt.

5. The Timeline
• 1200 – The Legend of the Nibelungs appears in
Germany; Richard Wagner(Romantic Composer) uses
it six centuries later as the theme for his operas.
• 1260 – Construction ends on Chartes Cathedral, the
Greatest architectural work of the Middle ages.
• 1320 – The composer and the theorist Philippe de
Vitry publishes his musical treatise Ars Nova, which
expounds a new musical style.
• 1323 – an Academy of Troubadours is founded in the
Toulouse that still exist today.
• 1377 – Guillaume de Machaut, the most renowned
medieval composer dies.

6. The Timeline
• 1400 – Guillaume Dufay, whose music is a blend
of medieval and Renaissance, is born in France.
• 1450 – Instrumental music takes root in Europe.
• 1497 – Leonardo da Vinci finishes one of his
most famous paintings, The Last Supper.
• 1501 – Octtavio Petrucci invents music
paintings.
• 1543 – William Byrd, one of the greatest
composers of the English Renaissance, is born

7. Pope Gregory I
(The Gregorian Chants)
• Plainsong – a
monophonic and
rhythmically free
type of melody.
• Chants – is made
up of word spoken
rhythmically.

8. The Basilica of St. Mark in Venice
Saint Mark's Basilica in the evening
Basic information
Location Venice, Italy
Geographic coordinates 45.4345°N
12.3396°ECoordinates: 45.4345°
N 12.3396°E
Affiliation Roman Catholic
District Patriarch of Venice
Year consecrated 8 October 1071
Ecclesiastical or organizational
status
Cathedral, Minor Basilica
Leadership Angelo Scola
Website Basilica di San Marco a Venezia
website
Architectural description
Architect(s) Domenico I Contarini
Architectural style Byzantine and Gothic
architecture
Completed 1617
Specifications
Length 76.50 metres (251.0 ft)
Width 62.50 metres (205.1 ft)
Dome(s) 5
Dome height (outer) 43 metres (141 ft)
Dome height (inner) 28.15 metres (92.4 ft)

9. Guido d’Arrezo writes Micrologus
History: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1IgcK0DetU&feature=related

10. Perotin (Viderunt)

11. The Nibelungs

12. Chartes
Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral

13. Philippe de Vitry (Ars Nova)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_nova
Ars Nova, which is
Latin for "new art,"
spanned between
the 14th and 15th
century primarily in
France.

14. Troubadours in the Toulouse
• Toubadours and Minstrels – professional musicians and poets who
composed love song and epic poems, entertained the medieval
courts.

15. Machaut and Dufay

16. Leonardo da Vinci (The Last Supper)

17. Octtavio Petrucci
invents music paintings

18. William Byrd

19. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
was an Italian Renaissance composer
of sacred music and the best-known
16th-century representative of
the Roman School of musical
composition. He has had a lasting
influence on the development of
church music, and his work has often
been seen as the culmination of
Renaissance polyphony.
Born: February 3, 1525, Palestrina, Italy
Died: February 2, 1594, Rome, Italy
Film music credits: Lunacy
Compositions: Missa Papae
Marcelli,Veni sponsa Christi

20. Reference
Reader’s Digest 700 Years of Classical Treasurses