MUS 333 Timeline

By abegolding

  • Start of WWI

  • Alban Berg - "Wozzeck" (Composed 1914-1922)

  • Dixieland Jazz Band - First Jazz Recording

  • League of Nations Established

  • Prohibition Begins

  • Arnold Schoenberg - "Piano Suite, Op. 25" (Composed 1921-1923)

  • Bessie Smith - "Back Water Blues"

  • King Oliver & Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five - "West End Blues"

  • Kurt Weill - "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" from Die Dreigroschenoper

  • U.S. Stock Market Crash

  • William Grant Still - "Afro-American Symphony"

  • Igor Stravinsky - "Symphony of Psalms" (Choral Symphony)

  • Ruth Crawford Seeger - "String Quartet 1931"

  • Billie Holiday - "You Let Me Down"

  • Spanish Civil War Begins

  • Dmitri Shostakovich - "Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

  • Billie Holiday - "A Sailboat in the Moonlight"

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos - "Bachianas Brasilieras, No. 5"

  • Start of WWII

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

  • Duke Ellington - "Cotton Tail"

  • Charles Ives - "The Unanswered Question"

  • Dmitri Shostakovich - "Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)"

  • Olivier Messiaen - "Quartet for the End of Time"

  • Duke Ellington - "Black, Brown and Beige"

  • Aaron Copland - "Appalachian Spring"

  • Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Béla Bartók - "Piano Concerto No. 3"

  • Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - "Anthropology"

  • Cold War Begins

  • Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball Color Line

  • Johnny Otis - "Midnight at the Barrelhouse"

  • Bud Powell, Ray Brown, Max Roach - "Tempus Fugit"

  • NATO Established

  • John Cage - 4'33"

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • NASA Established

  • Charles Mingus - "Fables of Faubus"

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

  • John Coltrane - "Giant Steps"

  • Ornette Coleman - "Free Jazz" (Double Quartet)

  • Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • Little Julian Herrera - "Lonely Lonely Nights"

  • Milton Babbitt - "Philomel"

  • Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine - "Rapid Shave"

  • Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddam"

  • Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Into Law Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Watts Rebellion

  • John Coltrane - "Psalm" from A Love Supreme

  • Steve Reich - "Piano Phase"

  • Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin - "Raga Piloo" from East Meets West Volume 2

  • Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Winterland)

  • Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Woodstock)

  • Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Record Plant)

  • Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Olly Wilson - "Sometimes"

  • Alfred Schnittke - "Concerto Grosso No. 1"

  • United States Bicentennial (200th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence)

  • Rhodesia ---> Republic of Zimbabwe

  • First Personal Computers Present

  • Sofia Gubaidulina - "Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Cello"

  • Arvo Pärt - "Te Deum"

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • Stella Chiweshe - "Chachimurenga"

  • Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"

  • Apartheid Ends in South Africa

  • Bright Sheng - "Seven Tunes Heard in China" (for solo cello)

  • Justin Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, and Hakurotwi Mude - "Nhemamusasa" (played at a bira)

  • Silk Road Ensemble Founded

  • Angela Davis - "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism"

  • Beauler Dyoko - "Nhemamusasa"

  • Osvaldo Golijov - "La Pasión según San Marcos"

  • Jennifer Higdon - "blue cathedral"

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

  • "Jazz" - a Documentary by Ken Burns

  • "The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch"

  • John Adams - "Doctor Atomic"

  • Hiromi Uehara - "Return of the Kung Fu World Champion"

  • Stella Chiweshe - "Rwavasekuru"

  • Yo-Yo Ma & Friends, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Silk Road Ensemble - "Arabian Waltz"

  • Bongani Ndodana-Breen - "Winnie: The Opera"

  • Death of Osama bin Laden

  • Newton Gwara and Chaka Marimba - "Nhemamusasa"

  • Hildegard Westerkamp - "At the Edge of Wilderness"

  • "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble"

  • José James - "Peace Power Change"

  • Yo-Yo Ma & Friends, Wu Man, Silk Road Ensemble - "Green (Vincent's Tune)"

  • Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja - "Raga Piloo"

  • Beyoncé - "Formation"

  • Samora Pinderhughes - "The Transformations Suite"

  • Fradreck Mujuru and Erica Azim - "Nhemamusasa"

  • Childish Gambino - "This is America"

  • Hope Masike - "Ndinewe Live"