475-1000: The Dark Ages
- 600: Pope Gregory produces a collection of chants, "Antiphonar"
- 600: Pope Gregory founds the Schola Cantorum in Rome
- 855: The earliest known attempts at polyphonic music
1000-1350: The High Middle Ages
- 995-c. 1050: Guido d'Arezzo, develops an improved form of musical notation.
- 1125: The beginnings of troubador and trouvere music in France
- 1200: The songs known as "Carmina Burana" are collected
- 1260: The first mastersinger school is established in Mainz
- 1322: The pope forbids the use of counterpoint in church music
- 1329: The term "ars nova" is coined by Philippe de Vitry
1350-1500: The Late Middle Ages
- 1340-1377: Guillaume de Machaut
- 1369-1453: John Dunstable
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