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Period: 500 to 1450
Medieval Period
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1030
Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
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1323
Ars Nova Treatise
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Period: 1450 to
Renaissance Period
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1485
Josquin’s Ave Maria virgo serena Motet
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1529
Martin Luther Chorale Ein feste burg (A Mighty Fortress)
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1538
Arcadelt Madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno
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1567
Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
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1572
Victoria Missa O magnum mysterium
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Gabrieli Sonata pian’e forte
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Baroque
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Monteverdi's L’Orfeo
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First Public Concerts in England
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JS Bach
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Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico
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Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
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Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Handel's Messiah
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WA Mozart
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Viennese Classical Period
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Period: to
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs
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Mozart's Don Giovanni
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Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"
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Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor
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Schubert Erlkönig
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Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1
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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
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Period: to
Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico
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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
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Bizet Carmen
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Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Brahms' Symphony No.4
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Mahler Symphony No.1
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Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
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Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (published)
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia (premiere)
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Claude Debussy's Voiles” from Préludes Book 1
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Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire
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Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps (premiere)
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Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"
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George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (published)
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Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere
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Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (film)
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Duke Ellington's Cottontail
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Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fine du temps
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Bela Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
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Copland Appalachian Spring
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John Cage's 4’33’’
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Edward Varese Poeme Electronique
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Miles Davis Kind of Blue
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John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine