Composers of the Week
Autumn 1  | Week/Composer/Composer Facts  | Song  | 
Renaissance 1400-1600 
 
 
  | Week 1: William Byrd 1540 - 1623 
  | Cantiones Sacrae 
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Week 2: Josquin des Prez 1450 - 1521 
  | El Grillo 
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Week 3: John Dowland 1563 – 1626 
  | Lachrimae 
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Week 4: Giovanni Gabrieli 1554 – 1612 
  | Sonata pian’e forte 
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Autumn 2  | 
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Baroque 1600-1750 
 
 
  | Week 1: Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 
  | The Four Seasons 
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Week 2: Johan Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 
  | Toccata and Fugue in D minor 
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Week 3: George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 
  | Water Music 
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Week 4:Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695 
  | The Chamber Opera Dido and Aeneas.  | |
Spring 1  | 
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Classical 1750-1820 
 
 
  | Week 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791 
  | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 
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Week 2: Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 – 1827 
  | Symphony No.5 in C minor  | |
Week 3: Franz Schubert 1797 -1828 
  | The London Symphonies. Symphony No.9 
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Week 4: Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809 
  | Clock Symphony 
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Spring 2  | 
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Romantic 1820-1900 
 
 
  | Week 1: Federico Chopin 1810- 1849 
  | The Minute Waltz 
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Week 2: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893  | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Nutcracker) Or Swan Lake  | |
Week 3: Felix Mendelssohn 1809 - 1847 
  | The Wedding March 
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Week 4: Johannes Brahm 1833 – 1897 
  | Lullaby 
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Summer 1  | 
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Modern 1890- 1960 
 
 
 
 
  | Week 1 Gustav Holst 1874 - 1934 
  | The Planets, op. 32 
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Week 2: James Horner 1953 – 2015 
  | My Heart will go on (titanic) 
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Week 3: Samuel Barber 1910 – 1981 
  | Adagio for Strings, op.11 
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Week 4: Sergei Prokofiev 1891 – 1953 
  | Peter and the Wolf 
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Week 5: Elmer Bernstein 1922 – 2004 
  | The Great Escape 
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Week 6: Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948 – 
  | Phantom of the opera 
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Summer 2  | 
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Contemporary 1960-present 
 
 
 
  | Week 1: Hans Zimmer 
  | The Lion King 
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Week 2 Lady Gaga 
  | Hold my Hand  | |
Week 3: Ed Sherman 1991 - 
  | Thinking Out Loud 
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Week 4: Beatles 
  | Let It Be 
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Week 5: Howard Leslie Shore 1946 
  | The Lord of The Rings  | 
        
        