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5500 BCE
Drums
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4500 BCE
Ocarina
Central America 4500 BC, woodwind
https://peabody.harvard.edu/OE-ocarinas-americas#:~:text=Central%20America%20is%20an%20ancient,the%20Andes%20until%20European%20colonization. -
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500 BCE
Maracas
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800
Xylophone
Southeast Asia 800s, percussion
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard von Bingen
Germany, 1098-1179 CE Medieval
Hildegard von Bingen is a poet and composer from the Medieval period. She has written 77 different poems and composed musical settings for each poem. She was born into nobility and at 15 she started pursuing a religious life. She had been experiencing visions since she was a child and at the age of 43 she started recording them as the poems she had written. -
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1220
Beata Viscera
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1300
Recorder
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1300
Bagpipe
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1400
Trombone
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1500
Triangle
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Banjo
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Piano
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Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565
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Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
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Baroque - Classical
The switch from Baroque to Classical happened over the course of 30 years from 1730 to 1760. The transition between the two musical eras happened when the new style of Classical took over Baroque. The new style started when music was beginning to become more simple and musicians wanted a change, and soon enough the switch had become clear. -
Handel, Messiah, HWV 56
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Mozart
Born is Austria. Mozart was born in a fairly good family which consisted of architects and bookbinders. At the age of 5 Mozart was already composing music. -
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Beethoven
Born in Germany. Beethoven was born and raised by a family of musicians. When he was 11 years old, he was forced to leave his school to support his family. and by 18, he was his family's main source of income. -
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Richard Wagner
Born in Germany. Richard Wagner was a German composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music. -
Song Without Words
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The Flying Dutchman
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Piano Concerto in A Minor
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Saxophone