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Piano and Forte, in appropriate costumes,
introduce each Period. Visual images help children remember historical events.
If they learn one key date in each period, they will develop a framework for
organizing other historical data. |
BAROQUE 1600
- 1750 |
Music
written primarily for the church or court. |
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Key Date: 1620, Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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Baroque Bigwigs |
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Pachelbel |
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Mouret |
Vivaldi |
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Albinoni |
Bach |
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Handel |
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Piano and Forte Performing for
Royalty |
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CLASSICAL 1750 - 1820 |
Music
written for rich upper classes and aristocracy. |
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Age
of Reason. Forte sternly enforces the rules.
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Key
Date: July
4, 1776; Independence Day |
| | Haydn |
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Boccherini |
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Mozart |
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Beethoven |
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Schubert |
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Forte Posing as George Washington |
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ROMANTIC 1820
- 1900
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Music
written for the rising middle class. |
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Emotion more important than reason.
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| Key Date: 1860 -- 1865, Civil War |
| | Rossini |
Brahms |
Offenbach |
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Liszt |
Saint-Saëns |
Smetana |
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Chopin |
Bizet |
Ponchielli |
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Schumann |
Tchaikovsky |
Suppé |
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Gounod |
Dvorák |
Borodin |
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Forte Posing as Abraham Lincoln |
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Strauss |
Grieg |
Delibes |
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Faure |
Wagner |
Mussorgsky |
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Verdi |
Mendelssohn |
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MODERN
1900 to Present |
Music written for everyone.
New form, harmony, rhythm. |
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Composers breaking the "rules" and
expressing themselves in new ways. |
Key Date: 1903, Wright Brothers
First
Sustained Flight
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| | Debussy |
Prokofiev |
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Rachmaninoff |
Satie |
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Sousa |
Joplin |
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Elgar |
Gershwin |
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Piano and Forte Relaxing the Rules in the Space Age
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Stravinsky |
Copland |
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Sibelius |
Shostakovich |
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This page was last updated on 4/1/2006 |
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