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Edward the Confessor
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1042 |
Early polyphony:
Winchester tropers (1050) |
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Harold
William the Conqueror
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1066 |
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William II
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1087 |
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Henry I
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1100 |
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Henry II
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1154 |
Death of Thomas à Becket
1170 |
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Richard I
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1189 |
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John I
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1199 |
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Henry lll
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1216 |
Earliest motet in English
Worldes blis (1260) |
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Edward l
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1272 |
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Edward ll
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1307 |
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Edward lll
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1327 |
100 Years' War
1340 |
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Richard Coeur de Lion
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1377 |
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Henry IV
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1399 |
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Henry V
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1413 |
Agincourt Song
Sumer is icumen in (1415)
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Henry VI
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1422 |
King's College Cambridge founded
1441
John Dunstable
c1390-1453 |
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Edward IV
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1461 |
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Edward V
Richard III
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1483 |
William Cornysh
1468-1523
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Henry VII
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1485 |
Wynken de Worde
1st English music printed
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Henry VIII
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1509 |
Greensleeves
The Reformation
John Tavener
c1490-1545
Christopher Tye
c1505-1572
Thomas Tallis
c1505-1585
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Edward VI
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1547 |
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Lady Jane Grey
Mary I
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1553 |
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Elizabeth I
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1558 |
William Byrd
1543-1623
John Dowland
1563-1626
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
1610
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James I
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1603 |
Death of Shakespeare
1616
Orlando Gibbons
1583-1625
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Charles I
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1625 |
Nicholas Lanier - Master of the King's Musik
1588-1666
Civil War
1642
Commonwealth
1649
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Charles II
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1660 |
Restoration
Chapel Royal Re-established
Louis Grabu - Master of the King's Musik
fl. 1665-c1693
Nicholas Staggins
d.1705
Henry Purcell
1659-1695
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James II
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1685 |
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William and Mary
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1689 |
Maurice Greene
1696–1755
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George I
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1714 |
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George II
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1727 |
John Gay's Beggars Opera
1728
William Boyce
1711-1779
GF Handel
1685-1759
Royal Society of Musicians est
1738
Handel's Messiah
1741
Thomas Arne
1710-1778
John Stanley
1712-1786
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George III
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1760 |
William Shield
1748-1829
Charles Wesley
1757-1834
Samuel Wesley
1766-1837
Royal Philharmonic Soc. est
1813
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George IV
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1820 |
Royal Academy of Music est
1823
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William IV
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1830 |
English Opera House rebuilt
1834
Francois Cramer
1772-1848
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Victoria
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1837 |
Crystal Palace Concerts est
1852
Sir William Cusins
1833-1892
Royal Albert Hall opened
1871
Royal College of Music est
1883
Grove's Dictionary 1st pub
1889
Sir Walter Parratt
1841-1924
Hubert Parry
1848-1918
Ethel Smyth
1858-1944
Frederick Delius
1862-1934
Promenade Concerts est
1895
Folk Song Society est
1898
Edward Elgar
1857-1934
Enigma Variations 1st perf
1899
Dream of Gerontius 1st perf
1900
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Edward VII
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1905 |
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George V
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1910 |
Sir Michael Tippett
1905-1998
Benjamin Britten
1913-1976
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872-1958
Gustav Holst
1872-1958
VW A London Symphony 1st perf
World War I
1972-1958
BBC takes over the Proms
1927
Sir William Walton
1902-1983
Belshazzar's Feast Ist perf
1931
Sir Walford Davies
1869-1941
Glyndebourne Opera est
1934
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Edward VIII
George VI
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1936 |
World War II
1939-1945
Sir Arnold Bax
1883-1953
A Child of Our Time 1st perf
1944
Peter Grimes 1st perf
1945
Royal Festival Hall opened
1951
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Elizabeth II
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1952 |
Sir Arthur Bliss
1991-1975
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
b.1934
Harrison Birtwistle
1934
Alexander Goehr
1951
Barbican Hall opened
1982
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