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Period: to
World War I
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First Jazz Recording
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band -
Period: to
Russian Revolution
and the rise of the Soviet Union -
Piano Suite, Op. 25
Prelude, Minuet, and Trio, Arnold Schoenberg -
Wozzeck
Alban Berg -
Kammermusik No. 5
Paul Hindemith -
Backwater Blues
Bessie Smith -
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer
from Die Dreigroschenoper, Kurt Weill -
West End Blues
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five -
Penicillin Discovered
by Alexander Fleming -
Stock Market Crash of 1929
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Symphony of Psalms
Mvt. 1. Igor Stravinsky -
Afro-American Symphony (Symphony No. 1)
Mvt. 1. William Grant Still -
String Quartet 1931
Ruth Crawford Seeger -
Rejoice! movement 5: Listen to the Still Small Voice Within
Sofia Gubaidulina -
Violin Concerto
Alban Berg -
You Let Me Down
Billie Holiday -
Muddle Instead of Music
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Symphony No. 5
Mvt. 2. Dmitri Shostakovich -
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
Billie Holiday -
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
No. 1, Aria (Cantilena). Heiter Villa-Lobos -
Period: to
World War II
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Cotton Tail
Duke Ellington -
The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives -
Symphony 7, Movement 1
Dmitri Shostakovich -
Quartet for the End of Time, movement 1: Liturgie de Cristal
Olivier Messiaen -
Black, Brown, and Beige
Mvt. 1, Black. Duke Ellington -
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland -
Anthropology
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie -
Piano Concerto No. 3, movement 1
Béla Bartók -
A Survivor From Warsaw, Op. 46
Arnold Schoenberg -
Midnight at the Barrelhouse
Johnny Otis -
Tempus Fugit
Bud Powell -
Listen to the Lambs
Golden Gate Quartet -
4'33''
John Cage -
Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday -
Fables of Faubus
Charles Mingus -
Blue in Green
from Kind of Blue, Miles Davis and Bill Evans -
Giant Steps
from Giant Steps, John Coltrane -
Free Jazz Part One
Ornette Coleman -
Lonely Lonely Nights
Little Julian Herrera -
Philomel
Milton Babbit -
Mississippi Goddam
Nina Simone -
Rapid Shave
Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine -
Psalm
from A Love Supreme, John Coltrane -
Watts Rebellion
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Come Out
Steve Reich -
Piano Phase
Steve Reich -
Raga Piloo
from West Meets East vol. 2, Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin -
Star-Spangled Banner
at Winterland, Jimi Hendrix -
Star-Spangled Banner
at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix -
Star-Spangled Banner
at Record Plant, Jimi Hendrix -
Moon Landing
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Sometimes
Olly Wilson -
Concerto Grosso No. 1
Mvt. 2, Toccata. Alfred Schnittke -
Zimbabwe's Independence
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Te Deum
Arvo Pärt -
Fight the Power
Public Enemy -
The Fall of the Wall
destruction of the Berlin Wall -
Invention of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee -
Seven Tunes Heard in China
No. 1, Seasons. Bright Sheng -
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Published
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Silk Road Ensemble Founded
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At the Edge of Wilderness
Hildegard Westerkamp -
blue cathedral
Jennifer Higdon -
La Pasión según San Marcos
Nos. 24-26. Osvaldo Golijov -
Jazz
Ken Burns -
Destruction of the World Trade Center
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Doctor Atomic
John Adams -
Return of the Kung Fu World Champion
Hiromi Trio -
Arabian Waltz
Rabih Abou-Khalil -
Winnie: The Opera
Bongani Ndodana-Breen -
The Music of Strangers
Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble -
Peace Power Change
José James -
Formation
Beyoncé -
Momentum, Part 2
from The Transformations Suite, Samora Pinderhughes -
Green (Vincent's Tune)
Wu Man and the Silk Road Ensemble -
This is America
Childish Gambino