| Links below point to timelines loosely based on A History of Western Music 
by Donald Jay Grout and Claude Palisca (4th ed.). | 
| 
|  Monteverdi
 (1567-1643)
 |  |  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. |