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850
Earliest surviving notation in the western tradition
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1000
Earliest western musical notation to designate specific pitches using a staff line
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1170
"Can vei la lauzeta" and "Reis glorios"
date approximate -
1175
Beginnings of rhythmic notationo
Known as "modal notation," it used patterns of note types to designate rhythmic patterns -
Dowland, "Flow my tears"
Published in his collection "The Second Booke of Songs" -
Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending, published
Publication in the collection "Triumphs of Oriana" -
Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
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Handel, Israel in Egypt premiere
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Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Langugaes
Approximate date of writing; published only in 1781 -
Goethe, "Erlkönig"
Poem, as part of the Singspiel Die Fischerin -
Death of Mozart; requiem left unfinished
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Schubert, Erlkönig
Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem published -
Edison applies for patent for phonograph
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Berliner receives patent for gramophone
plays discs rather than cylinders -
Brussels World Expo and Varèse's Poème électronique
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Nine inch nails, "Hurt"
Released as the last song on the album "The Downward Spiral" -
Johnny Cash, "Hurt"
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Release of Nathalie Joachim's Fanm d'Ayiti
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First day of Music 27
