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The following timeline is a work-in-progress of the history of the guitar and its role in supporting musical styles. If you have corrections, clarifications, additional thoughts, insights or information, please contact us.
1844 in music – Birth of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Charles-Marie Widor. 1843 in music – Birth of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907); Minstrel show premieres in United States; Der fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden. 1842 in music – "Lisztomania" sweeps Europe.
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May 30, 2016 · It is easy to associate medieval music with only two contrasting sound worlds: the unaccompanied liturgical song of churches and monasteries, and the earthy instrumental music associated predominately with recreational settings.
- Lisa Colton
- 2016
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3,042 pieces from the collection, published in America between 1850 and ...
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. Contents; Introduction: The History of What? Chapter 1 The Curtain Goes Up. Literacy; The Romans and the Franks; The Carolingian Renaissance; The Chant Comes North; The Legend of St. Gregory; The Origins of Gregorian Chant; Monastic Psalmody; The Development of the Liturgy; The Mass ...
Mar 8, 2014 · Goodall talks of composers writing uplifting music when a third of the population of Europe was being wiped out by the black death in the 14th century.
The two earliest extant recorders, both small, plain wooden instruments, date from the fourteenth century, and archival and pictorial evidence survives from the same period. A member of the flute family, the recorder was used for art music in western Europe throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
