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This piece outlines singing and teaching practice for Gregorian chant, and has considerable discussion of the composition of polyphonic music. (was not in PowerPoint)
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The Most Prolific European composer before 1500!
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Ars Nova Treatise time. He was the first composer to supervise the collection, cataloging, and copying of his own works.
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This work exemplifies Palestrina’s Style, which became a model for subsequent generations and is still the ideal in present-day textbooks on counterpoint.
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This eight-part sonata is from Italy and is perhaps the best known of Gabrieli’s instrumental compositions as it was one of the first pieces to specify dynamics and instrumentation. (was not in PowerPoint)
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Monteverdi created the first opera that both survived the centuries and stuck in the repertory -- a work of music and theater
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This set of concertos greatly influenced the evolution of concerto form as it developed north of Italy.
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The Treatise describes music and how to write it based on the tonal system used today in classical music. It uses the modern major and minor keys to teach readers what to do to achieve good sounding music based on the 12 tone music scale.
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed this to demonstrate the feasibility of equal temperament, and also as a teaching aid for his students.
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It is one of the most famous and widely shared pieces of music in history. Handel intended his oratorio “Messiah” for Lent, and it was first performed just after Easter 1742.
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Music Director of Concert des Amateurs (1773-1781). One of the finest orchestras in Europe, Later known as “Le Mozart Noir".
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Don Giovanni is generally regarded as one of Mozart's supreme achievements and one of the greatest operas of all time,and it has proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers.
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The Symphonies of 1791–1795, or the London Symphonies, are considered his greatest achievements. Haydn employed novel ideas to outdo competition from a rival concert series featuring Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831).
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Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Dedicated to the Dutch piano virtuoso and salon music composer Ernest Henry Lubeck, and published in Mainz circa 1860
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Wagner had long desired to have a special festival opera house, designed by himself, for the performance of the Ring. In 1871, he decided on a location in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth. In 1872, he moved to Bayreuth, and the foundation stone was laid. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opened in 1876 with the first complete performance of the Ring, which took place from 13 to 17 August.
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The original publisher of Mussorgsky's piano suite, W. Bessel & Co. rushed to produce an orchestral version of its own after Ravel's proved popular
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