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The Florentine Camerata was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence, they gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi.
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
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The rise of the centralized court is one of the economic and political features of what is often labelled the Age of Absolutism, personified by Louis XIV of France.
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Composed around 1638, Allegri's setting of the Miserere was amongst the falsobordone settings used by the choir of the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week liturgy, a practice dating to at least 1514.
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Through the work of Johann Fux, the Renaissance style of polyphony was made the basis for the study of composition.
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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
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Each set contains twenty-four pairs of prelude and fugue. The first pair is in C major, the second in C minor, the third in C major, the fourth in C minor, and so on.
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George Frideric Handel was born February 23, 1685. While we all have heard the Hallelujah Chorus during Christmas season, many people don’t realize that George Frideric Handel is its world-renowned composer. And at Christmas time we all sing “Joy To The World”, another of his masterpieces.
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British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests
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Washington is inaugurated as president at Federal Hall in New York.
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is inaugurated as the second president in Philadelphia.