CHAPTER 3: History to 1800 > Early Renaissance - 15th century

Historical and Musical focal points (18)

1440s

- Humanism in Italy

1453

- Turks captured Constantinople

1454

- Gutenberg, Movable type printing

1455-1485

- Wars of the Roses

1430-1460

- Dunstable, Netherlanders 1: Dufay, Binchois

1440

- Meistersingern in Germany

1450

- White notation

1450-1505

- Netherlanders 2: Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin, Isaac

1470s

- first music printing (plainsong)

1498

- Petrucci, Venice, preparing to print polyphony