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| Music in antiquity | |
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| The Christian church in the first millennium | |
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| Roman liturgy and chant | |
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| Song and dance music in the Middle Ages | |
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| Polyphony through the thirteenth century | |
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| French and Italian music in the fourteen century | |
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| The age of the Renaissance | |
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| England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century | |
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| Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520 | |
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| Sacred music in the era of the Reformation | |
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| Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century | |
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| The rise of instrumental music | |
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| New styles in the seventeenth century | |
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| The invention of opera | |
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| Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century | |
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| France, England, Spain, and the New World in the seventeenth century | |
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| Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century | |
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| The early eighteenth century in Italy and France | |
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| German composers of the late Baroque | |
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| Opera and vocal music in the early Classic period | |
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| Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury | |
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| Classic music in the late eighteenth century | |
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| Revolution and change | |
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| The Romantic generation : song and piano music | |
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| Romanticism in classic forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music | |
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| Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury | |
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| Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century | |
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| Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria | |
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| Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century | |
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| The early twentieth century | |
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| Modernism and the classical tradition | |
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| Between the world wars : jazz and popular music | |
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| Between the world wars : the classical tradition | |
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| Postwar crosscurrents | |
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| The end of the millennium | |