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The Medieval period lasted from 500-1450CE
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Charlemagne ruled from 800-814CE. 500-600 works were established during his time. Later turned out to be 3,000
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Musica Enchiradis is a set of rules for polyphony music
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Guido of Arezzo's Micrologus was a treatise about Medieval music in approximately 1026. The singing outlines his practice of Gregorian chant and talks about polyphonic music. He talks against perfect fifths and minor seconds but encouraged major seconds and perfect fourths
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Hildegard of Bingen lived from 1098-1179CE
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These were composers and performers from 1100-1350
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Notre Dame School Polyphony has only two confirmed composers. Leonin from 1163-1250 and Perotin from 1190-1225
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Franco was a German Intellectual who travelled to Paris in 1280 to teach. He was responsible for creating note value length. He did this by introducing the breves and the semibreves, He also established consonant and dissonant intervals.
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Guillaume de Machaut was lived from 1300-1377. He went on to compose some of the oldest love songs such as Rose, liz
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In 1323, Ars Nova created a way to breakdown breves and semibreves by grouping them in categories of threes. He essentially created the first time signatures
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Francesco Landini lived from 1325-1397. He was heavily influenced by treble dominant France. He would go on to compose many various love songs. He created Landini cadences
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1450-1600
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1454
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1515
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1538
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1546
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1567
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They were a group of female singers for the Renaissance court in Ferrara, Italy. They were founded in 1580 and were active until the court was dissolved in 1597
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Sonata pian’e forte was composed by Giovanni Gabrieli. It was composed in Italy in 1597. It was the first piece to depict which instruments to use and what the dynamics are.
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1600-1750
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It was composed in 1607 for the Duke of Mantua
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Concerts were now available to the public people as opposed to just the rich
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He lived from 1685-1750. His death date marks the end of the Baroque era and he is now viewed as one of the most influential composers of all time
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Handel lived from 1685-1759. He was a revered as England's best composer at the time
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One of the only two sung operas that found success at the time
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Bach wrote 6 concertos and submitted them to Brandenburg
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He essentially took many of his predecessors music theory studies and compiled them together in one work
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This was a piece written by Bach for his students to be able to practice in all 24 keys
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1730-1770
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Hayden lived from 1732-1809
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It premiered in Dublin Ireland in 1742 during Lent
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Mozart was born in 1756 and died in 1791. He would publish a multitude of works in this time
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1770-1800
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While it unknown when Beethoven was born, we know he was baptized and at the time, babies were baptized when they were born. We do know however that he died on March 26, 1827
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Saint Georges joined the orchestra in 1796, but in 1773 when the director left, he took over as head director. It was disbanded in 1781
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They became published in 1781
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Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 23 in 1786
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Mozart's Don Giovanni was composed in 1787. It was sung in Italian
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Haydn published his last 12 symphonies between 1791-1795. He titled them as the London Symphonies
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Schubert was born January 31, 1797 and died on November 19, 1828
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Schubert composed the Erlkönig in 1815 when he was around 17 or 18. The work is based off of Goethe's poem
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The Barber of Seville premiered on February 20th, 1816 at the Teatro Argentine in Rome
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These pieces were made for practicing techniques and were published in 1820
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We know of two complete movements but we have only found fragments of the other movements thus making the work unfinished
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The piece was composed in 1827 and was written for Harriet Smithson, an actor whom Berlioz was infatuated by.
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These are a set of 5 dances written between 1830-1832
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This piece was written to show different characters, we know it was composed sometime between 1833-1835
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This piece was one of her poems transformed into music by her husband for their first anniversary
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This piece was written in 1841 and she informed her brother of it being published in 1846
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While exact date isn't certain we know that there was a reissue of the book in 1855
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We are not certain when the piece was written but we do know that it was performed first on March 13, 1845
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This opera was first performed on March 6th, 1853
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This composition was actually inspired by a tour of Puerto Rico that Gottschalk took
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This work was composed between 1857 and 1859. It would go on to make its debut however on June 10th, 1865
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This opera debuted on January 27th, 1874. It would go on to be re orchestrated later and gained popularity
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This opera was first performed on March 3rd, 1875. While at first it was not too popular or successful, over time, it grew to become the most popular opera of all time
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This piece took about 26 years to fully orchestrate. It is also performed on 4 total days, on for each part. The piece debuted on August 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, 1876.
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This piece was composed in 1884, just one year after his third symphony but would not be performed until October 25th, 1885
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This pieced was composed in 1887 debuted in Budapest in 1889. It was not very well received on its debut but would be redone later by Mahler and became very popular
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This is a two piece ballet written in 1892. This would go on to be Tchaikovsky's last great ballet following Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake
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This piece was written by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak in 1893 to depict life and culture in the new worlds
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This opera debuted on February 17th, 1904. It is about a woman giving up her entire belief system for a man who then shows he doesn't really want to be with her. This ultimately leads to her death
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This piece was successfully completed on July 7th, 1912
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This ballet debuted in Paris on May 29th, 1913
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Arguably Gershwin's biggest and most popular piece
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This piece was supposedly composed on July 7th, 1925
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Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five wrote this piece in 1927
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This piece debuted on November 21, 1937 in St. Petersburg Russia
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This film was released in 1938
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Duke Ellington composed this piece on May 4, 1940
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There isn't an exact date known for this composition. We know it was written in 1943 but the exact date is uncertain.
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