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Stravinsky Rite of Spring
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Beginning of World War I
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First Jazz Recording-The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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End of World War I
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Alban Berg, Wozzeck, Op. 7 Act III, Scene 2 & 3
1917-1922 -
Soviet Union formed
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Arnold Schoenberg, Piano Suite Op. 25: Prelude, Minuet & Trio
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Stalin takes power, Soviet era starts
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Hindemith Kammermusik No. 5
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Bessie Smith, Back Water Blues
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Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera): Prelude
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Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five, West End Blues
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US Stock Market Crash
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Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, mvt. 1
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Ruth Crawford-Seeger, String Quartet 1931 mvt. 4
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William Grant Still Afro-American Symphony (No. 1)
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Billie Holiday, You Let Me Down
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Shostakovich Symphony 5
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Billie Holiday, A Sailboat in the Moonlight
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Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.5: No. 1 "Aria"
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Start of World War II
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Duke Ellington, Cotton Tail (contrafact)
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Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time mvt. I: Liturgie de Cristal
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Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question
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Shostakovich Symphony 7, "Leningrad" mvt. 1
finished in 1941, premiered in 1942 -
Duke Ellington, Black, Brown, and Beige
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Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring
1943-1944 -
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Anthropology-Bebop
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Bela Bartok, Piano Concert No. 3, mvt. 1
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End of World War II
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Johnny Otis, Midnight at the Barrelhouse
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Bud Powell, Tempus Fugit
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The Golden Gate Quartet, Listen to the Lambs
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John Cage, Music of Changes
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John Cage, 4'33
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End of Stalin's dictatorship-he died
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Civil Rights Movement
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Charles Mingus, Fables of Faubus
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Miles Davis, Blue in Green-Kind of Blue
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John Coltrane, Giant Steps-Giant Steps
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Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz (Double Quartet)
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Little Julian Herrera, Lonely Lonely Nights
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Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam
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Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott, Rapid Shave
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Milton Babbitt, Philomel
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John Coltrane, Psalm
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Steve Reich, Come Out
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Cultural Revolution Begins
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Steve Reich, Piano Phase
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Raga Piloo from West Meets East, Vol. 2
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Jimi Hendrix, Star-Spangled Banner at Winterland (1968), Record Plant (1969), Woodstock (1969)
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Schnittke Concerto Grosso No. 1, II: Toccata
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Cultural Revolution Ends
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Olly Wilson, Sometimes
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Zimbabwe became Zimbabwe
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Sofia Gubaidulina, Rejoice! Sonata for Violin & Violoncello mvt. V: Listen to the still, small voice within
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Pauline Oliveros, A Love Song
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Public Enemy, Fight the Power
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Soviet Union dissolved
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Bright Sheng, Seven Tunes Heard in China for Solo Cello: No. 1 "Seasons"
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Silk Road Ensemble Formed
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Osvaldo Golijov La Pasión Según San Marcos
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Jennifer Higdon, Blue Cathredal
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Ken Burns Jazz Series
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Fall of the Twin Towers
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John Adams, Doctor Atomic, "Batter My Heart"
Libretto by Peter Sellars -
Hiromi Uehara Trio, Return of the Kung Fu World Champion
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Andre Myers, From the Dark Tower
Performed by Darryl Taylor; Poem by Countee Cullen -
Rabih Abou-Khalil, Arabian Waltz
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Hildegard Westerkamp, At the Edge of Wilderness
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Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, The Music of Strangers (film)
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Jose James, Peace Power Change
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Wu Man w/ the Silk Road Ensemble, Green (Vincent's Tune)
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Beyonce, Formation-Lemonade
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Samora Pinderhughes, The Transformations Suite, "Momentum, Pt. 2"
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Childish Gambino, This is America
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48 Degrees North, First album released
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