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Music Timeline Flashcards

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Constantine issues the Edict of Milan, making Christianity legal and giving the church the right to own property

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313

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Emporer Constantine sees a cross burning in the sky and has his entire household baptized

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312

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Emperor Theodosius I makes Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire

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380

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Boethius writes De Institutione Musica (On the organization of music) and St. Benedict of Nursia crafts the Rule of St. Benedict guidelines for his monks

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Early sixth century

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Pope Gregory I begins his reign in Rome; he is eventually recognized as the supreme pope

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590

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Charlemagne decrees that monasteries should teach singing (along with arithmetic and grammar)

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789

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Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor

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800

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Scribes begin using neumes, the first notation symbols. Composers start devising organum.

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Early Ninth Century

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Guido of Arezzo introduced staff lines and solmization syllables

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Early Eleventh Century

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Guido writes the Micrologus (Little Treatise), the first technical manual for music theory

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1028

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A system for rhythmic notion begins to develop

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Twelfth Century

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Richard the Lion-Hearted composes the chanson “Ja nus hons pris” while imprisoned

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1193

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“Dies Irae” is composed

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Thirteenth Century

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“Summer Is Icumen In” is composed

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1250

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Mensural notation (employing varied note shapes and the ancestors of time signatures) is introduced

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Fourteenth century

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The spirit of humanism fosters exploration and experimentation

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Fourteenth - Fifteenth century

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Columbus sails the ocean blue (Columbus sails to the New World)

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1492

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Ottaviano Petrucci publishes the first printed music collection using movable type

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1501

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Martin Luther criticizes the Catholic Church publicly, eventually leading to the reformation

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1517

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The Council of Trent begins, one of the reforms described as the Counter-Reformation

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1545

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Jacobus de Kerle’s ‘Preces Speciales’ (“Special Prayers”) convinces the Council of Trent not to abolish polyphony in Church Services

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1562

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Maddalena Casulana is the first woman to publish a book of Madrigals

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1568

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Palestrina composes the first of his Missa L’homme Armé settings

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1570

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The Florentine Camerata begins to meet

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1573

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The Duke of Ferrara hosts a fine trio of professional female singers known as the Concerto Delle Donne

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1575

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Jacopo Corsi and Jacopo Peri compose the first opera, Dafne

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1594

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Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata Pian e Forte includes dynamic indications

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1597

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Marenzio composes the madrigal “Solo e Pensoso”

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1599

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A Florentine Camerata member, Giulio Caccini, publishes Le Nouve Musiche (“The New Music”), demonstrating the new monodic singing style

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1602

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Monteverdi composes the first operatic masterpiece, L’Orfeo

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1607

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The Thirty Years’ War begins

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1618

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The first public opera house opens in Venice

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1637

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The Bay Pslam Book is the first publication in the New England colonies

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1640

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Monteverdi composes L’incoronazione Di Poppea for a Venetian public opera house

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1642

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A Venetian guidebook lists Vivaldi as a tourist attraction

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1706

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Vivaldi publishes The Four Seasons

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1725

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The Academy of Ancient Music begins giving concerts in London

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1726

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Johann Stamitz takes charge of the Mannheim orchestra, the most celebrated ensemble in Europe

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1745

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Equal temperament becomes the norm, and Enlightenment thinking spreads through Europe (and the northern colonies in America)

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1750

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Johan Mainwaring publishes the first separate biography of a composer (Handel)

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1760

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Johan Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel begin their subscription concerts in London

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1765

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J. C. Bach gives the first public performance on a solo piano

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1768

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Charles Burney publishes volume one of his history of music

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1776

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Haydn publishes his Op. 33 string quartets, written in a “new, special way”

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1781

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Mozart composes his Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major

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1783

45
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Over four hundred performers contribute to a Handel Commemoration Concert in London

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1784

46
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Haydn comes to London for the first time as the composer for the Salomon concerts; he writes Symphony No. 94 in G Major (“surprise”)

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1791

47
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A music conservatory is established in Bologna, Italy

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1804

48
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The London Philharmonic orchestra is founded

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1813

49
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Schubert writes the Lied “Erlkönig”

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1815

50
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Pianist John Field introduces the “nocturne” as a type of character piece

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1821

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Felix Mendelssohn conducts J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, launching the Bach Revival

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1829

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Berlioz presents his Symphonie Fantastique

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1830

53
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Robert Schumann publishes Carnaval, a piano miniature cycle

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1837

54
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Franz Liszt uses the term “recital” to describe a solo performance

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1840

55
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Berlioz publishes an influential orchestration treatise

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1843

56
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Adolphe Saxe patents the saxophone

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1846

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The first American music conservatory, the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore is founded

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1857

58
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Claude Monet exhibits his painting ‘Impression: Soleil Levant’ (Impression: Sunrise)

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1874

59
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

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1877

60
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The University of Michigan establishes the first School of Music in the United States

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1880

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Edvard Munch paints his expressionistic The Scream. The World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago introduces millions of visitors to ragtime

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1893

62
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Debussy’s impressionistic orchestral piece Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun premieres

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1894

63
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Tom Turpin is the first African-American composer to publish a rag

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1897

64
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Scott Joplin publishes his first rags, “Oriental Rag” and “Maple Leaf Rag”

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1899

65
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Radio transmits speech for the first time

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1900

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Alessando Moreschi, the last castrato singer, records several pieces

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1902

67
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Charles Ives composes the experimental piece The Unanswered Question. “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” is one of Tin Pan Alley’s most successful popular songs

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1908

68
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Performances of New York’s Metropolitan Opera comprise the first public radio broadcasts

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1910

69
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Schoenberg finishes his Expressionist song cycle Pierrot Lunaire

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1912

70
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The Berlin Philharmonic records the complete fifth symphony by Beethoven (requiring eight discs bound as an ‘album’). Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring sparks a riot among its Parisian audience

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1913

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The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is formed to collect royalties from performances

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1914

72
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Ives’s song The Things Our Fathers Loved illustrates collage technique. Henry Cowell’s The Tides of Manaunaun makes use of tone clusters. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band so the first group to record a jazz number, the Livery Stable Blues

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1917

73
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Stravinsky writes Ragtime for Eleven Instruments

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1918

74
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Leon Theremin introduces the eerie electronic instrument bearing his name

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1920

75
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Schoenberg completes Piano Suite, Op. 25, the first multi-movement work to use his new twelve-tone method. Bessie Smith’s first recording for Columbia, “Down Hearted Blues”, puts the company’s books back in the black

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1923

76
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Cowell performs the string piano work The Banshee

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1925

77
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Bessie Smith, Joe Smith, and Fletcher Henderson record “Lost Your Head Blues”

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1926

78
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The Jazz Singer is the first feature film to contain spoken dialogue

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1927

79
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George Gershwin writes Broadway musical Girl Crazy, including the hit song “I Got Rhythm”

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1930

80
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Edgard Varèse composes Ionisation, the first piece to feature only percussion instruments

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1931

81
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Berlin and London present public television broadcasts

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1936

82
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John Cage devises the first prepared piano work, published two years later as Bacchanale

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1938

83
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Glenn Miller releases what will be his big-band theme song, “Moonlight Serenade”

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1939

84
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Stan Kenton’s “Artistry in Rhythm” illustrates progressive jazz

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1943

85
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Gillespie and Parker record the bebop number “Shaw ‘Nuff”

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1945

86
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Billboard Magazine introduces the classification”rhythm and blues”

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1949

87
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Symphonie Pour un Homme Seule (symphony for one man alone)- the first major musique concrète composition- is broadcast on the radio

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1950

88
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Cage’s 4’33” challenges the boundaries of what constitutes music

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1952

89
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“Minor Intrusion”, by Charlie Mingus, demonstrates the Jazz/classical mix called “third stream” jazz. Bill Haley and the Comets record the rock-and-roll hit “Rock Around the Clock”

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1954

90
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Le Caine creates Dripsody

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1955

91
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Elvis Presley sings on the Ed Sullivan show, viewed by 33% of the American population. His rockabilly hit “Hound Dog” begins to sell three million copies. The Forbidden Planet is the first film with a solely electronic soundtrack

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1956

92
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The Illiac Suite is the first computer-generated composition

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1957

93
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet records “Take Five” one of the most popular cool jazz numbers. John Coltrane releases the hard bop piece “Giant Steps” while Miles Davis demonstrates modal jazz in “So What”

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1959

94
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The Shirelles “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” (In 32-bar form) is the first song by an all-girl group to reach Number 1 on the Billboard “Hot 100” listing. Ornette Coleman breaks jazz boundaries with “Free Jazz”

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1960

95
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Hits such as “The Girl from Ipanema” popularizes bossa nova jazz. The Four Seasons “Sherry” is the Number One pop rock hit

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1962

96
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Cassette tapes are introduced

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1963

97
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Terry Riley composes the popular minimalist work In C.

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1964

98
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“In the midnight hour” illustrates Memphis Soul. Bob Dylan shocks folk audiences by bringing an electric guitar on stage. The Byrds record the folk-rock hit “Mr. Tambourine Man”

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1965

99
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Frank Zappa explores art rock in his album Freak Out!

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1966

100
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Jefferson Airplane’s recording of “White Rabbit” is an acid rock hit in the Phrygian mode

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1967

101
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Annea Lockwood oversees the first performance of “Piano Burning”. Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” is released, and a lyric from the song may have given heavy metal rock its label

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1968

102
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Punk rock and disco both gain national attention, and “The Hustle” climbs to Number One

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1975

103
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Hard rock tunes like Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” climb the charts

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1976

104
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The success of “Rapper’s Delight” pulls both hip hop and rap into the mainstream

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1979

105
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Michael Jackson records the album Thriller

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1982

106
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Compact discs become commercially available

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1983

107
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Miles Davis illustrates the Jazz/Rock mixture of fusion in “You’re Under Arrest”

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1985

108
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Paul Simon’s Graceland album mixes pop, rock, and world music

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1986

109
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DVDs are introduced

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1997

110
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Blu-Ray discs reach the market

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2006

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