Links below point to timelines loosely based on A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout and Claude Palisca (4th ed.).
Monty
Monteverdi
(1567-1643)
 
Medieval Period: ca. 500-1400
Renaissance Period: 1400-1600
Baroque Period: 1600-1750
Classical Period: 1750-1825
Romantic Period: 1825-1900
Modern Period: 1900-1950
Wolf
Wolf
(1860-1903)
Note: Providing dates for historical periods is tricky business and the ranges provided above should be taken with a grain of salt. The dates are meant to facilitate the logical grouping of stylistic periods, but by no means do they constitute hard and fast historical start or end-points.