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Medieval Period, also known as the Middle Ages, was around 500-1450 CE.
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Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus has the 4-line staff and consists of relative pitches (Ut, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, La). It is dated around 1030 CE.
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Hildegard of Bingen, a prominent female composer and for her prophecies during Medieval period, was born in 1098 CE and passed away in 1179 CE.
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Ars Nova Treatise was around 1323 CE and the important innovation is that the duple meter (a controversial meter during this time period) was being used.
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Renaissance Period, which was a period of re-birth or revival of Ancient Greek culture, was around 1450-1600 CE.
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Josquin’s Ave Maria ... virgo serena Motet, also known as the "Mona Lisa", was around 1485 CE.
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Martin Luther's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God) was in 1529 CE.
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Arcadelt's madrigal, Il bianco e dolce cigno, which was in a chordal texture alternating with points of imitation, was around 1538 CE.
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Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass was published in 1567 CE and it was a dedication for pope in order to show that sacred words can be intelligible in polyphonic music with 6 voices.
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Victoria, who was the first Spanish composer to master Palestrina’s style, published Missa O magnum mysterium in 1572 CE.
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Gabrieli's Sonata pian’e forte was published in 1597 CE at St. Mark’s Basilica which is located in Venice, Italy. The significant was that this piece was the first music to use dynamic "soft and loud".
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Baroque period, was around 1600-1750 CE.
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L’Orfeo or Orpheus by Claudio Monteverdi was composed in 1607. This was the first opera to have the standard repertory and only men could enter the fist performance.
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The first public concert in England occurred at Mr. John Bannister’s house in the 1672 and the public concerts were popular for the middle class audiences.
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 and died in 1750.
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Antonio Vivaldi composed L’Estro Armonico or the Harmonic Inspiration in 1711. Also, it was published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam.
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Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie or Treatise on Harmony was published in 1722. Also, Traité de l’harmonie worked as the basis for functional harmony pedagogy.
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Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1 consists preludes and fugues in all keys and it was published in 1722.
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Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 and died in 1809.
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Handel's Messiah is composed in 1741 but it was premiered in 1742 in Dublin.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 and died in 1791.
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Viennese Classical period was around 1770-1800 CE.
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Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges or Joseph Bologne who worked as director of Concerts des Amateurs in 1773-1781 and it was one of the best orchestras in Europe.
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Mozart's Don Giovanni was published in 1787. The librettist for this was Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" was composed in 1791, but it was officially premiered in 1792 in London.
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Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor was premiered in December 22nd 1808 in Vienna.
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Schubert's Erlkönig was composed in 1815.
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Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1 was composed in 1805, but published in 1820.
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Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was composed in 1830.
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Frederic Chopin's Mazurkas Op.7 was composed in 1830-1831.
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Das Jahr was composed in 1841.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico was composed during 1857-1858
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Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the original piano version, was premiered in 1874.
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Bizet's Carmen was premiered in 1875.
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The complete cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen was premiered in 1876.
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Brahms' Symphony No.4 was premiered in 1885.
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Mahler's Symphony No.1 was premiered in 1888.
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Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" was premiered in 1893.
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Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag was published in 1899.
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia was premiered in 1900.
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Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1 was composed in 1910.
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Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire was composed in 1912.
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Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps was premiered in 1913.
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Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25 was composed in 1923.
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That" was composed in 1927.
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George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" was published in 1930.
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Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 was premiered in 1937.
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Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (film) was composed in 1938.
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Duke Ellington's Cottontail was composed in 1940.
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Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps was composed in 1940.
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Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra was composed in 1943.
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Copland's Appalachian Spring was composed in 1944.
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John Cage's 4’33’’ was composed in 1952.
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Edgard Varèse's Poeme Electronique was composed in 1957~58.
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Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was composed in 1959.
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George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children was composed in 1970.
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John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine was composed in 1986.