Music Through Time(line)

By teggebroten

  • Stravinsky Rite of Spring

  • Beginning of World War I

  • First Jazz Recording-The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

  • End of World War I

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

    1917-1922

  • Soviet Union formed

  • Arnold Schoenberg, Piano Suite Op. 25: Prelude, Minuet & Trio

  • Stalin takes power, Soviet era starts

  • Hindemith Kammermusik No. 5

  • Bessie Smith, Back Water Blues

  • Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera): Prelude

  • Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five, West End Blues

  • US Stock Market Crash

  • Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, mvt. 1

  • Ruth Crawford-Seeger, String Quartet 1931 mvt. 4

  • William Grant Still Afro-American Symphony (No. 1)

  • Billie Holiday, You Let Me Down

  • Shostakovich Symphony 5

  • Billie Holiday, A Sailboat in the Moonlight

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.5: No. 1 "Aria"

  • Start of World War II

  • Duke Ellington, Cotton Tail (contrafact)

  • Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time mvt. I: Liturgie de Cristal

  • Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question

  • Shostakovich Symphony 7, "Leningrad" mvt. 1

    finished in 1941, premiered in 1942

  • Duke Ellington, Black, Brown, and Beige

  • Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring

    1943-1944

  • Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Anthropology-Bebop

  • Bela Bartok, Piano Concert No. 3, mvt. 1

  • End of World War II

  • Johnny Otis, Midnight at the Barrelhouse

  • Bud Powell, Tempus Fugit

  • The Golden Gate Quartet, Listen to the Lambs

  • John Cage, Music of Changes

  • John Cage, 4'33

  • End of Stalin's dictatorship-he died

  • Civil Rights Movement

  • Charles Mingus, Fables of Faubus

  • Miles Davis, Blue in Green-Kind of Blue

  • John Coltrane, Giant Steps-Giant Steps

  • Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz (Double Quartet)

  • Little Julian Herrera, Lonely Lonely Nights

  • Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam

  • Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott, Rapid Shave

  • Milton Babbitt, Philomel

  • John Coltrane, Psalm

  • Steve Reich, Come Out

  • Cultural Revolution Begins

  • Steve Reich, Piano Phase

  • Raga Piloo from West Meets East, Vol. 2

  • Jimi Hendrix, Star-Spangled Banner at Winterland (1968), Record Plant (1969), Woodstock (1969)

  • Schnittke Concerto Grosso No. 1, II: Toccata

  • Cultural Revolution Ends

  • Olly Wilson, Sometimes

  • Zimbabwe became Zimbabwe

  • Sofia Gubaidulina, Rejoice! Sonata for Violin & Violoncello mvt. V: Listen to the still, small voice within

  • Pauline Oliveros, A Love Song

  • Public Enemy, Fight the Power

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Soviet Union dissolved

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

  • Silk Road Ensemble Formed

  • Osvaldo Golijov La Pasión Según San Marcos

  • Jennifer Higdon, Blue Cathredal

  • Ken Burns Jazz Series

  • Fall of the Twin Towers

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

    Libretto by Peter Sellars

  • Hiromi Uehara Trio, Return of the Kung Fu World Champion

  • Andre Myers, From the Dark Tower

    Performed by Darryl Taylor; Poem by Countee Cullen

  • Rabih Abou-Khalil, Arabian Waltz

  • Hildegard Westerkamp, At the Edge of Wilderness

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

  • Jose James, Peace Power Change

  • Wu Man w/ the Silk Road Ensemble, Green (Vincent's Tune)

  • Beyonce, Formation-Lemonade

  • Samora Pinderhughes, The Transformations Suite, "Momentum, Pt. 2"

  • Childish Gambino, This is America

  • 48 Degrees North, First album released

    Honest Talk

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