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Period: 500 to 1450
Medieval Period
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Period: 800 to 814
Charlemagne’s Reign
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900
Musica Enchiriadis
Describes motions within music (oblique and contrary) -
1030
Guido of Arezzo’s Micrologus
Little treatise
Solfege (Solmization) on hexachord system -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
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Period: 1100 to 1350
Troubadour/Trobairitz
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Period: 1163 to 1190
Notre Dame School Polyphony (Leonin)
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Period: 1190 to 1225
Notre Dame School Polyphony (Perotin)
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Period: 1215 to 1270
Franco of Cologne/Ars Canctus Mensurabilis
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Period: 1300 to 1377
Guillaume de Machaut
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1323
Ars Nova Treatise
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Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
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1450
Gutenberg Printing Press
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Period: 1450 to
Renaissance
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1515
Josquin's Missa Pange lingua
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1529
Martin Luther's Ein feste burg
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1538
Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno
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1567
Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
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Period: 1580 to
Concerto delle donne
Ferrara, Italy -
Sonata pian'e forte
-Composed by Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612)
-St. Mark's Cathedral
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Baroque Period
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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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Handel
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
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Antonio Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico
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Brandenburg Concertos
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The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
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Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
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Pre Classical Period
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Handel's Messiah
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Viennese Classical Period
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs
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Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets
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Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23
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Mozart's Don Giovanni
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Haydn's London Symphonies
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Franz Schubert
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor
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Schubert's Erlkönig
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Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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Niccolo Paganini's 24 Caprices for Unaccompanied Violin, Op. 1
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Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor
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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
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Frederic Chopin's Mazurkas Op. 7
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Robert Schumann's Carnaval
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Das Jahr
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Clara Wieck Schumann's "Liebst du um Schönheit"
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Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
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Verdi's La traviata
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Period: to
Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Souvenir de Porto Rico
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
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Mussourgsky's Boris Godunov
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Bizet's Carmen
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Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Brahms' Symphony No. 4
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Mahler's Symphony No. 1 "Titan"
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Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker
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Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 “From the New World"
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Debussy's Prélude à l’aprés midi d’un faune
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Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
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Jean Sibelius' Finlandia
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Puccini's Madama Butterfly
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Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire
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Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps
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Schönberg's Piano Suite, Op.25
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George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
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Louis Armstrong's "Hotter Than That"
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Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 premiere
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Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky
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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's Appalachian Spring
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John Cage's 4’33’’
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Edgar Varese's 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