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Period: 500 to 1400
Medieval Period
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1030
Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus
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Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard of Bingen
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1323
Ars Nova Treatise
Brought new innovation to musical notation that grew into an art movement spanning 1315-1375 -
Period: 1450 to
Renaissance
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1485
Ave Maria ... virgo serena - Josquin
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1529
Ein feste burg - Martin Luther
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1538
Bianco e dolce cigno -Arcadelt
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1567
Pope Marcellus mass - Palestrina
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O Magnum Mysterium
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Sonata pian'e forte - Gabrieli
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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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Period: to
JS Bach
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Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico
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Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
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Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Handel's Messiah
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Period: to
WA Mozart
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Period: to
Viennese Classical Period
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Period: to
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges as director of Concerts des Amateurs
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Mozart's Don Giovanni
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Haydn's Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"
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Beethovern Symphony No. 5 in C minor
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Schubert Erlkönig
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Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Violin, op.1
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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
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Period: to
Frederic Chopin Mazurkas Op.7
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Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Das Jahr
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Period: to
Louis Moreau Gottschalk Souvenir de Porto Rico
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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
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Bizet Carmen
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Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Brahms' Symphony No.4
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Mahler Symphony No.1
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Claude Debussy “Voiles” from Préludes Book 1
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Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire
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Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (premiere)
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Manuel de Falla Homenaje (Homage)
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George and Ira Gershwin “I Got Rhythm”
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Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No.5 premiere
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Duke Ellington Cottontail
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Margaret Bonds “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring
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Period: to
John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
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Miles Davis Kind of Blue
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George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children
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John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine