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 |