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Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
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PREFACE: ANCIENT (Beginning of
Time 500 AD)
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PART ONE: MEDIEVAL
(500AD-1400)
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.5
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Introduction to the
Medieval Era
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Pope Gregory the Great
(c. 540-608).
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Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179)..................
......11
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Guillaume de Machaut
(1300-1377)
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A Few More Important Medieval Composers
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.15
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PART TWO: RENAISSANCE ERA
(1400-1600)
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Chapter One: Early Renaissance
(1400-1500)...
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..19
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Introduction to the
Early Renaissance
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...19
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John Dunstable
(c.1390-1453)
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.21
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Guillaume Dufay
(c.1400-1474)
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..23
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Johannes Ockeghem
(c.1410-1497)
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.25
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Josquin Desprez
(c.1440-1521)
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27
Chapter Two: High Renaissance
(1500-1600)...
..........29
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Introduction to the
High Renaissance
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29
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Thomas Tallis
(c.1505-1585)
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33
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Giovanni Pierluigi
Palestrina (1525/6-1594)
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William Byrd
(1543-1623)
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37
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Giovanni Gabrieli
(c.1553-1612)
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.39
A Few More Important Renaissance
Composers
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.41
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PART THREE: BAROQUE ERA
(1600-1750)
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Chapter One: The Early Baroque
(1600-1700)
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..........45
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Introduction to the
Early Baroque
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Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643)
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.49
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Heinrich Schόtz
(1585-1672)
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.53
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
(1632-1687)
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...55
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Arcangelo Corelli
(1653-1713)...
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..57
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Henry Purcell
(1659-1695)
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59
Chapter Two: The High Baroque
(1700-1750)
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Introduction to the
High Baroque
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Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741)
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.63
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Georg Philip Telemann
(1681-1767)
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65
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George Frederic Handel
(1685-1759)...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
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69
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Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-1757)
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A Few More Important Baroque Composers
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PART FOUR: THE CLASSICAL ERA
(1750-1820)
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.77
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Introduction to the
Classical Era
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79
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Carl Philip Emmanuel
Bach (1714-1788)....
...81
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Christoph Willibald von
Gluck (1714-1787)....
..83
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Franz Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809)
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85
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Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
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89
A Few More Important Classical Composers
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.92
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PART FIVE: THE ROMANTIC ERA
(1810-1910)
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...95
Chapter One: The Early
Romantics
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.97
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Introduction to the
Early Romantics
..97
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Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827)
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.101
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Niccolo
Paganini (1782-1840)
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Carl Maria
von Weber (1786-1826)
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Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
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Hector Berlioz
(1803-1869)
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Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)
..115
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Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
.117
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Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)
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...119
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
.121
Chapter Two: The Late German
Romantics
.123
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Introduction to the
Late German Romantics..123
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Richard Wagner
(1813-1883)
125
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Anton Bruckner
(1824-1896)
129
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Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)
..133
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Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911)
...137
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Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)
..139
Chapter Three: Romantic Italian
Opera
143
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Introduction to Italian
Operas
143
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Giaccino Rossini
(1792-1868)
.145
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Guisseppi Verdi
(1813-1901)
.147
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Giacomo Puccini
(1858-1924)
149
Chapter Four: Romantic
Nationalism
151
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Introduction to
Romantic Nationalism
.151
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Modest Mussorgsky
(1839-1881)
153
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Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
155
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Antonin Dvorak
(1841-1904)
157
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Edvard Grieg
(1843-1907)
159
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Nicolia Rimsky-Korsakov
(1844-1908)
161
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Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957)
.163
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Sergei Rachmoninoff
(1873-1943)
165
A Few More Important Romantic Composers
167
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PART VI: THE MODERN ERA (1900
Today)
173
Chapter One:
Impressionism
.175
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Introduction to
Impressionism
.175
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Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
177
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Erik Satie (1866-1921)
181
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Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
183
Chapter Two:
Neoclassicism
185
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Introduction to
Neoclassicism
185
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Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1972)
187
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Sergei Prokofiev
(1891-1953)
191
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Paul Hindemith
(1895-1963)
195
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Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975)
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Chapter Three: Modern
Nationalism
199
- Introduction to Modern
Nationalism
199
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Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)..................................201
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Scott Joplin
(1868-1917)
205
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958)
207
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Gustav Holst
(1874-1934)
209
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Charles Ives
(1874-1954)
211
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Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
213
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George Gershwin
(1892-1937)
215
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Aaron Copland
(1900-1990)
217
Chapter Four: Serialism
219
Introduction to Serialism
221
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Arnold Schoenberg
(1874-1951)
223
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Anton Webern
(1883-1945)
225
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Alban Berg (1885-1935)
227
Chapter Five: Contemporary Classical
Music
229
Introduction to Contemporary
Classical Music
231
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Olivier Messiaen
(1908-1992)
.233
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John Cage (1912-1992)
.235
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Leonard Bernstein
(1918-1990)
..237
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
(1928-)
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.239
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John Williams (1933-)
241
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Philip Glass (1937-)
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243
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John Adams (1947-)
245
A Few More Important Modern Classical
Composers
247
GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL
TERMS
253
GLOSSARY OF COMPOSERS
.259
COMPLETE MUSIC
RECOMMENDATIONS..............................................281 |