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Period: 300 BCE to 1450
Medieval Period
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1030
Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
This piece includes Guido's teaching system in the medieval period. Guido's system is a system of notation known as Hexachords, which is the precursor to the modern Solfege system we use today. -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
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1320
Ars Nova Treatise
This was the invention of a new way to notate time signatures with time signatures in triple meter as holy and meters in duple as evil. -
Period: 1450 to
Renaissance Period
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1485
Josquin de Prez's Motet: Ave Maria... Virgo Serena
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1529
Martin Luther's 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
Palestrina wanted to show that polyphony could be understood and in this polyphony, he included Six distinct voices. The most significant part of Palestrina's piece is that the motion of musical progression was in a sweeping manner (what goes up must return downwards). -
Victoria's Parody Mass: Missa O Magnum Mysterium
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Gabrieli: Sonata Pian'e Forte
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Baroque Era
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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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Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
This composition became the basis for teaching functional harmony -
Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
it consists of 24 preludes and fugues that highlight the 24 major and minor scales -
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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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Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs
He was very well known and his orchestra was one of the finest in Europe -
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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Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr
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Period: to
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
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia
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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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Arnold Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25
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Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"
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George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm"
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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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George Crumb's Black Angels
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John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine