COMPOSER

WORKS

NOTES

Byrd, Fanaby etc.

Elizabethan Keyboard Music

Virginals, Harpsichord, Clavichord.

Elizabethan Lute Songs and Madrigals e.g. Weelkes

Ayre, Madrigal, Ballett, Word Painting

Byrd

Mass and Sacred Music

Tudor English Church Music, Anthem

Palestrina

Missa Papae Marcelli

A Capella

Monteverdi

Orfeo, Madrigals

Rise of opera, Origins of the Baroque

Purcell

Come ye Sons of Art, Dido and Aeneas, String Fantasias

Odes, Ground Bass, Chaconne

Corelli

Christmas Concerto

The Rise of Instrumental Music

Vivaldi

The Four Seasons, Gloria

Concerto Grosso, Development of the violin, Sequence

Bach, J. S.

Organ Chorale Preludes, St. Matthew Passion, Magnificat, Cantata 'Wachet Auf', Motet 'Jesu Meine Freude', Brandenburg Concertos, The Goldberg Variations, Trio Sonatas etc. etc. !!!

Chorale treatment, Baroque Choral music, Cantata, Motet, Continuo, Variation form, Equal temperament.

Couperin and Rameau

Keyboard music

French harpsichord style, Development of the suite

Handel

Concerti Grossi Op.12, Messiah

17th century orchestra, Oratorio

Haydn

Military Symphony, 'The Creation', String Quartets

The Classical Symphony, Da Capo Aria, Word Painting, The rise of the string quartet

Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, and No. 21 in C, 'The Marriage of Figaro', Jupiter Symphony, Symphony 40 in G minor, Clarinet Quintet, String Quintet in G minor, Piano Sonata in A, Requiem

Cadenza, Classical, Concerto form, Forte piano, Ensemble, Finale, Classical Orchestra, The Clarinet, The development of the piano

Beethoven

Symphonies (3 ,5, 6, and 9), Emperor Piano Concerto, Piano Sonatas - Pathetique, Op.110 in A flat, Rasumovsky String Quartets, A 'Late' Quartet, Missa Solemnis

Growth of the orchestra, The development of the piano, Coda, Scherzo

Schubert

Trout Quintet, The Unfinished Symphony, Quartet 'Death and the Maiden', 'Die Schoene Mullerin', A Piano Sonata, Sextet

Romantic lied

Rossini

The Barber of Seville, William Tell Overture, Petite Messe Solenelle

Rise of Romantic Opera

Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto, Songs Without Words, Italian Symphony

Romantic Concerto form

Schumann

Dichterliebe, Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet, Piano Music e.g. 'Carnival'

Song cycle, use of piano in 19th century, Character piano pieces

Chopin

Piano music selection (Nocturnes, A Sonata, Scherzo, Concerto)

Waltz, Mazurka, Prelude, Study, Polonaise, Piano technique.

Berlioz

Symphony Fantastique

Idee fixe, 19th century orchestra, programme music.

Brahms

Symphony no. 4, Piano Concerto no.2 in Bflat, Clarinet Quintet, Piano Music

Passacaglia, 19th century concerto and Chamber music.

Dvorak

Hungarian Dances, 'New World' Symphony

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Smetana

Vltava, 'Bartered Bride' overture

Tone Poem, Programme music, Nationalism.

Liszt

Piano Sonata

Thematic transformation, cyclic form

Verdi

'La Traviata', Requiem

Italian Romantic Opera

Wagner

Tristan and Isolde Overture, Die Meistersinger Overture

Chromaticism, Music Drama

Tchaikovsky

Ballet Music, Symphonies 4 and 6

19th century orchestration, Romantic Symphony

Mahler

Symphony of a thousand

Choral Symphony

Bruckner

A Symphony

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Sibelius

Symphonies 2 or 4 or 5, 'Tapiola', 'The Swan of Tuonela'

Organic growth

Elgar

Enigma Variations, Cello Concerto

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Strauss

'Also Sprach Zarathustra', Four Last Songs

Tone Poem

Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto no. 2, Symphony no.2

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Debussy

'La Mer', 'Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune', Piano Music

Impressionism, pentatonic and whole tone scales

Ravel

Piano Music, Mother Goose Suite, Piano Concerti

Orchestration

Stravinsky

The Rite if Spring, Wind Octet, Symphony of Psalms

20th century rhythm, Neoclassicism

Bartok

Concerto for Orchestra, String Quartet no.5, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 'Microkosmos', Allegro Barbaro

Influence of folk music, 20th century chamber music, Use of percussion, 20th century piano music

Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire, Variation for Orchestra

Atonality, Serialism

Berg

Violin Concerto

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Webern

Symphonie

Klangfarbenmelodie

Hindemith

Viola Concerto

Vaughan Williams

Symphony no.3 and 6, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Pastoral idiom, English Musical Renaissance

Delius

Brigg Fair

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Walton

Belshazzar's Feast, Symphony no.1

20th century oratorio, use of fugue

Ives

The Unanswered Question

American music

Shostakovich

Symphony no. 5

Soviet influence on the Arts

Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet

Britten

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Sinfonia Da Requiem

Opera, 20th century Symphony

Varese

Ionisation

Messaien

Turangalila Symphony, Organ Music

Ondes Martenot

Boulez

Piano Music

Post War Trends in music

Stockhausen

Electronic Music

Post War Trends in music

Penderecki

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

Post War Trends in music

Peter Maxwell Davis

Songs for a Mad King

Post War Trends in music