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Clergy and troubadours -- A new art; Machaut, Landini -- The English countenance, Dunstable, Fayrfax, Taverner -- From Burgundy to Italy, Dufay, Obrecht, Depres, Isaac -- Mistress music, Janequin, Palestrina, Lassus -- Elizabethan England a golden age? Tallis, Byrd, Morley -- The coming of opera, Monteverdi, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti -- Baroque Exported, Schutz, Purcell, Francois Couperin -- A climax of style, Rameau, Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Handel, Bach -- Clarity and sentiment, Rousseau, Gluck, Pergolesi -- Vienna and the classic style, Haydn, Mozart -- Heroic symphony, Beethoven, Schubert -- The Romantic impulse, Weber, Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt -- The Verdi-Wagner era, mid-century composers, mainly operatic -- Symphony, sonata, song, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Elgar -- Twentieth century Ferment, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Stravinsky -- Jazz invasion, political intervention, Prokofiev, Milhaud, Hindemith, Walton -- Continuation, Stravinsky, Orff, Messiaen, Britten -- On and off the frontier, Cage, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio. |
