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| The Story of Classical Music | |
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The Story of Classical Music |
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| The Medieval Period (600-1490) | |
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The Year 600: Music in Churches |
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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) |
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| The Renaissance Period (1490-1600) | |
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Medieval to Renaissance: Giovanni Pierluigi da Pal |
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The Birth of Opera: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) |
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| The Baroque Period (1600-1750) | |
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Into the 17th Century: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1 |
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London: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) |
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Germany: Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) |
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Italy: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1715) |
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Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) |
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Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750) |
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) |
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| The Classical Period (1750-1830) | |
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The Classical Period: An Explanation |
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) |
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) |
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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
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Mozart's Great Works |
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
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Beethoven's Great Works |
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| The Romantic Period (1830-1900) | |
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Background History |
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| The Romantic Period (Continued) | |
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The Composer as a Star |
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Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) |
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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) |
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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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Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) |
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) |
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) |
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) |
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Clara Schumann (1819-1896) |
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) |
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Max Bruch (1838-1920) |
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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) |
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) |
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Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) |
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The Waltz: The Strauss Family |
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Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) |
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Leo Delibes (1836-1891) |
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Georges Bizet (1838-1875) |
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Russia, the National Voice and the 'Mighty Handful |
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Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) |
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Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) |
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Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) |
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| The Romantic Period (Continued) | |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Continued) |
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Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) |
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Norway: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) |
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England: Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) |
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France: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) |
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| The Late Romantics, Impressionists and Others | |
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Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) |
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918) |
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Spain: Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) |
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Industrial Progress |
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England: Edward Elgar (1857-1934) |
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Italy: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) |
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Austria: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) |
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France: Paul Dukas (1865-1935) |
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) |
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1837) |
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Richard Strauss (1864-1949) |
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Finland: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) |
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England: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) |
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934) |
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Russia: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) |
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| New Directions in the 20th Century | |
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) |
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Russia: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) |
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Hungary: Bela Bartok (1881-1945) |
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Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) |
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Austria: Anton Webern (1883-1945) |
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Carl Orff (1895-1982) |
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Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) |
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USA: Charles Ives (1874-1954) |
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Roy Harris (1898-1979) |
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| New Directions in the 20th Century (Contiinued) | |
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George Gershwin (1898-1937) |
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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
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Samuel Barber (1910-1981) |
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| After the Second World War | |
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Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) |
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England: William Walton (1902-1983) |
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Russia: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) |
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England: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
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France: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) |
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| Composers of the Avant-Garde | |
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France and USA: Edgard Varese (1883-1965) |
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USA: John Cage (1912-1992) |
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| Minimalism | |
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England: John Tavener (b. 1944) |
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USA: Philip Glass (b. 1937) |
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| Film Music | |
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Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) |
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Howard Shore (b. 1946) |
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John Williams (b. 1932) |
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| Epilogue | |
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Epilogue |
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