MUS 333

By Rica420

  • World War I Begins

  • Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

  • The First Recording of Jazz by Original Dixieland Jazz Band

  • Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7, Act III, Scenes 2 & 3

  • Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Suite, op. 25, Prelude, Minuet and Trio

  • Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues

  • Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 5

  • Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera): Prelude: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: West End Blues (composed by Joe "King" Oliver)

  • Black Tuesday (start of the Great Depression)

  • Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms, Mvt. I

  • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony (Symphony No. 1), Mvt. I, Moderato Assai

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931, Mvt. 4

  • Billie Holiday: "You Let Me Down"

  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Op. 47, Mvt. II, Allegretto

  • Billie Holiday: "A Sailboat in the Moonlight"

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, no. 1, Aria (Cantilena)

  • World War II Begins

  • Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail

  • Charles Ives: the Unanswered Question

    Finished in 1906, revised and published in 1941

  • Olivier Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time, Mvt. 1, "Liturgie du cristal"

  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad," Mvt. 1

    Finished in 1941, premiered 1942

  • Duke Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige, Mvt. 1, "Black"

  • Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

  • Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Mvt. 1

  • Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Anthropology

  • Johnny Otis: "Midnight At the Barrel House"

  • Bud Powell: "Tempus Fugit"

  • The comic strip "Peanuts" is first published by Charles M. Schulz

  • The Golden Gate Quartet: "Listen to the Lambs"

  • John Cage: Music of Changes

  • John Cage: 4'33"

  • Mount Everest is first successfully summited by Sir Edmund Hillary

  • Miles Davis/Bill Evans: "Blue in Green" from Kind of Blue

  • John Coltrane: "Giant Steps" from Giant Steps

  • Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (Double Quartet)

  • Little Julian Herrera: "Lonely, Lonely Nights"

  • Milton Babbitt: Philomel

  • Nina Simone: "Mississippi Goddam"

  • Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine: "Rapid Shave"

  • John Coltrane: "Psalm" from A Love Supreme

  • Steve Reich: Piano Phase

  • Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin: "Raga Piloo" from West Meets East

  • Jimi Hendrix: "Star Spangled Banner at Winterland"

  • Jimi Hendrix: "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock

  • Jimi Hendrix: "Star Spangled Banner" at Record Plant

  • Moon Landing

  • Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1, Mvt. 2, Toccata

  • Zimbabwe gains independence

  • Sofie Gubaidulina: Rejoice!, Mvt. 5, "Listen to the still, small voice within"

  • Public Enemy: "Fight the Power"

  • Destruction of the Berlin Wall

  • Creation of the World Wide Web

  • Bright Sheng: Seven Tunes Heard in China, No. 1, "Seasons"

  • Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasión según San Marcos, Nos. 24, 25, & 26

  • Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral

  • Ken Burns' "Jazz" Series

  • Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center

  • John Adams: Doctor Atomic: "Batter My Heart"

    Libretto by Peter Sellars

  • Hiromi Trio: "Return of the Kung Fu World Champion"

  • Rabih Abouh-Khalil: Arabian Waltz

  • Kim Jong-Un is appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea

  • Andre Myers: "From the Dark Tower"

  • Hildegard Westerkamp: At the Edge of Wilderness

  • José James, "Peace: Power, Change"

  • Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble: The Music of Strangers (film)

  • Wu Man (with Silk Road Ensemble): "Green (Vincent's Tune)"

  • Beyoncé: "Formation" from Lemonade

  • Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformation Suite, "Momentum, pt. 2"

  • Childish Gambino: "This Is America"

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