600 Gregorian
Chant—monophony (one voice)
850 Polyphony—2
voices in parallel intervals
1180 Troubadours
(minnesingers)—Germany
1430 Harmonized
melody—composer, Josquin Desprez
1562 Return to
polyphony
1588 English
madrigals
1600 Baroque period—Vivaldi,
Handel, Bach
1750 Classical—Beethoven,
Mozart, Haydn,
1820 Romantic
period—Bizet, Brahms, Dvorak, Grieg,
Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Verdi,
Wagner, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns
1834 Hillbilly (American
Folk)—“Turkey in the Straw”
1859 Martin
Guitar Company opens
1860 Introduction
of West African rhythms to Americas
1875 Vaudeville,
Minstrel, Gospel Music
1877 Edison invents sound recording
1885 Gilbert and
Sullivan—The Mikado
1896 Ragtime—Scot
Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer”
1902 Impressionist—Debussy,
Ravel, Schoenberg, Stravinsky
1909 Spiritual
Music—“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
1919 Jazz—Louis
Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton
1920s Dixieland
jazz and Boogie Woogie
1923 Blues—Ma
Rainy, Bessie Smith
1924 Maurice
Ravel, George Gershwin
1925 “Cowboy
Song” recorded—American folk songs
1927 Carter
Family began recording country music
1930 Big
Band—Benny Goodman
1932 Swing—Duke
Ellington “It Don’t Mean a Thing,
If It Ain’t Got That Swing”
1933 Hammond organ introduced
1937 Glen Miller
1940 Hank
Williams
1951 Rhythm and
Blues
1954 Rock and
Roll—Bill Haley and the Comets
1955 Elvis
Presley
1957 Leonard
Bernstein—West Side Story
1961 Patsy Cline
1963 Beatles—Rock
music
1964 Folk
music—Bob Dylan
1973 Reggae
1973 Punk—Patti
Smith
1979 Rap—Sugar
Hill Gang
1987 World Music
