Historical dictionary of sacred music

CHRONOLOGY

Chronology: translation

c. 1000 B. C. Rule of King David, traditional author and compiler of the Book of Psalms.
c. 420 B. C. Synagogues established; divine service ordained by the Sanhedrin.
A. D. 70Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans; instrumental music in Jewish worship is prohibited as a sign of mourning.
c. 400Oktoēchosof Severus collection of Byzantine hymn texts. St. Romanos developskontakionhymn form for Byzantine liturgy.
c. 500System of accents for chanting the Hebrew Scriptures brought into use by the Masoretes. First wave ofbhajan, popular Hindu songs, in India.
590-604Pontificate of St. Gregory the Great.
c. 622The Prophet Muhammed institutes the call to prayer, the ‘adhān.
c. 700Role of the Jewishhazzanchanges from caretaker to chanter of the Scriptures and leader of song.
711Muslims invade the Iberian peninsula.
c. 760Yehudai Gaon of Sura standardizes the synagogal chant.
c. 850Byzantine chant brought to Slavic peoples by Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
c. 875First Jewishsiddurcompiled by Rav Amram.
c. 900Earliest sources of Gregorian chant, recorded in staffless neumes at St. Gall and Laon.Musica enchiriadis, earliest source of polyphonic mass propers and ordinaries. Earliest sources of Byzantine chant with decipherable melodies.
c.950Abū’l-Faradj al-Isfahāni compilesKitāb al-Aghāni("Book of Songs"). Aaron Ben Asher founds the Tiberian system of Biblical accents.
c. 996First Winchester Troper preserves music and text ofQuem{}quaeritisliturgical drama.
c. 1000Precise pitch notation of Gregorian chant using staves; Hartker Antiphoner. Earliest written sources ofsāmavedicchant.
c. 1025Guido d’Arezzo introduces staff lines to express pitch height in chants more precisely and a system of sight-singing.
c. 1050Second Winchester Troper preserves first practical book of polyphony.
1085Fall of Toledo; Mozarabic rite suppressed in Spain.
c. 1100Earliest Missinai melodies. Earliest notatedpiyyutim. Jayadeva composes theGīta-Govindain India.
c. 1160Magnus Liber Organicollection of organum begins to be compiled. Earliest notated Chineseya-yüeh.
c. 1350Guillaume de Machaut composesLa Messe de Nostre Dame, first mass cycle by a single composer.
c. 1425-35Earliest cantus firmus masses by Leonel Power and John Dunstable.
1409Süleyman Celibi composes themawlīdcalled the "Way to Salvation."
c. 1425Rabbi Jacob Molin standardizes the Ashkenazic synagogue liturgy.
c. 1450Guillaume Dufay’sMissa Se La Face Ay Paleuses a secular tune as cantus firmus. Practices of chanting in Ashkenazic liturgy, standardized by Jacob Molin, are compiled.
1484Puranda Dasa, composer of Hindukirtana, born in India.
c. 1490Earliest alphabetic pitch notation for Russian chant. Earliest extant polyphonic Requiem, composed by Johannes Ockeghem.
c. 1475-1500Structural imitation becomes standard texture for polyphonic masses and motets, particularly notable in the works of Josquin Desprez.
1524Earliest printed collections of Lutheran chorales.
1526Martin Luther’sDeutsche Messe(German Mass).
1540Constance Songbook published.
1545-1563Council of Trent enacts reforms in Roman Catholic liturgical music.
1547Heinrich Glarean publishes hisDodechachordonupdating the theoretical recognition of church modes to 12.
1550John Merbecke publishesBooke of Common Praier Noted(London).
1562Third Genevan Psalter published.
1567Missa Papae Marcelliby Giovanni da Palestrina published.
1586Lucas Osiander’sFünfftzig geistliche Lieder und Psalmen(Nuremburg), first printed collection of cantional chorales with melody in the soprano voice.
1587Israel Najara brings out first printed collection of devotional poems (zemirotim) in Safed.
1594The organ is used as part of a Sabbath ritual in Prague.
1614-1615Publication in Rome of the so-called Medicean chantbooks containing revisions of traditional Latin chants.
1623Salamone Rossi publishesHa-Shirim Asher Li’Shlomo, settings of traditional Jewish liturgical texts to modern musical style, in Venice.
1629Rabbi Leone da Modena founds a Jewish music academy in Venice.
1652-1656Patriarch Nikon promotes polyphony in Russian chant.
1700Erdmann Neumeister publishesGeistliche Cantaten statt einer{}Kirchen-Music, poetic texts for liturgy modeled after Italian operatic conventions.
1707First hymnal of Isaac Watts,Hymns and Spiritual Songs, setting psalm paraphrases.
1707-1708Johann Sebastian Bach’s earliest authenticated cantatas performed at Mühlhausen.
1712B. H. Brocke publishesDer für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte{}und sterbende Jesus, a popular paraphrase of the passion story set by Telemann and Handel among others.
1717-1718George Frederic Handel’s Chandos Anthems.
1723 December 25: First performance of J. S. Bach’s Magnificat, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Saxony (Germany).
1724 April 7: First performance of J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion.
1727 April 11: First performance of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
October 27: First performance of Handel’s Coronation Anthems.
1734 December 25-27: First performance of J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Parts I–III.
1737First Methodist hymnal compiled by John Wesley.
1739Publication of Part III of J. S. Bach’sClavier-Übung.
1741 14 September: Handel completes the orchestration toMessiah.
1749Completion of J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor.
c. 1750R. Israel Bal Shem Tov founds Hassidism and teaches a significant spirituality for congregational singing.
1791Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1801A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns, first hymnal for African-American use published in Philadelphia.
1803First printed collection of spirituals published in Philadelphia.
1815Israel Jacobson introduces the organ to synagogue liturgy in Berlin.
1822Israel Lovy introduces four-voiced choral singing to synagogue liturgy in Paris.
1823Missa Solemnisby Ludwig van Beethoven.
1826Salomon Sulzer begins modernizing the Jewish cantorate in Vienna.
1829 11 March: Revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Berlin, credited with igniting an explosion of interest in Bach’s music.
c. 1830Chrysanthus of Madytus reforms the Byzantine chant notation.
1837Prosper Guéranger founds the abbey of St. Pierre at Solesmes, France, a center for the revival of Gregorian chant.December 5: Premiere of Requiem by Hector Berlioz in Paris.
1838Solomon Sulzer publishes Vol. 1 ofSchir Zion.
1846 26 August: Premiere of Felix Mendelssohn’sElijahin Birmingham.
1861Hymns Ancient and Modernpublished in England.
1870The Ceciliam movement publishes the so-called Ratisbon Edition of Latin chant.
1874 22 May: Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in Milan.
1882The Congress of Arezzo introduces the Solesmes versions of traditional Latin chant.
1894 17 May: Premiere of Gabriel Faureé’s Requiem.
1896First edition of the modern chant bookLiber Usualis.
1903 22 November: Pope St. Pius X promulgatesTra le sollecitudini(Motu proprio) regulating music of the Roman Catholic Church.
1921Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
1926Sancta Civitas, cantata by Edward Elgar.
1932Oratorio-operaMoses und Aroncomposed by Arnold Schoenberg.
1945Missa Cantuariensisby Edmund Rubbra.
1947Messe Solennelle"Salve Regina"by Jean Langlais.
1948Mass for chorus, soloists, and 10 winds by Igor Stravinksy.
1949Taizé interdenominational community founded.
195620th-Century Folk Masscomposed by Geoffrey Beaumont.
1960Missa Super Modos Duodecimales, a mass composed with serial technique, by Anton Heiler.
1963 4 December: Second Vatican Council in Rome promulgates the {}Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.
1964Misa Criollaby Ariel Ramirez.
1965Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucamby Krzyztof Penderecki.Chichester Psalmsby Leonard Bernstein.
1974Magnificat by Penderecki.
1979Publication ofGraduale Triplex, comparing modern chant notation with earliest sources.
2000Lamentations and Praisesof John Tavener.

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