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Two Arabesques: the fledgling impressionism of Debussy's early work
France
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Romantic
PIANO
Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather
Austria
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Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute
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SONGWRITER
El Manisero: essential rumba song behind Caribbean music world expasion
Cuba
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1920s
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1930s
Santour
Azam Ali's magnificent vocal journeys through languages
Canada
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India
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Iran
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USA
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World Music
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2000s
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2010s
Koto
Michio Miyagi & Renée Chemet: near century-old collaboration of koto and violin linking Japanese traditions with Western classic
Japan
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20st Century Classical
PIANO
The Orpheus of Amsterdam: the joyful nickname for organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Netherlands
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Fantasia
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Baroque
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Renaissance
Music Theory
Dorian mode in The Doors songs
USA
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1960s
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Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls
England
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Pixinguinha: Brazilian saxophonist who established choro music as a pop genre a hundred years ago
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The transcendental experience behind classical orchestras conducted by Sergiu Celibidache
Romania
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Popular songs showing the submediant chord in all diatonic modes
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Scandalous piano experiments by George Antheil shocked early avant-garde scene
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Shurangama Mantra as a vital Buddhist practice to save the universe and achieve enlightenment
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The Snows They Melt the Soonest survives through folk tradition
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Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism
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The first English musical criticism written by Charles Avison argued that music evokes purely positive emotions
England
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Longfellow Serenade and the fireside poet that kindled Neil Diamond's song
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1970s
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The Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first-ever jazz recording over 100 years ago
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Great Depression cut short the extraordinary dance life of McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
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The boundless Flemish heritage of Heinrich Isaac
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Flute-like songs of golden oriole recorded in summer woods
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Moonlight Serenade got its name to contrast the sun
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The alloy of melody and spoken word in the music of Reynaldo Hahn
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Spanish motifs contributed by Emmanuel Chabrier to the rise of Impressionism in France
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To study academic theory, superb pianist Wynton Kelly took up bass
Jamaica
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USA
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1950s
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1960s
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1970s
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The Doors songs with Aeolian and harmonic minor modes
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Ladytron: Roxy Music's lunar landing with mellotron, oboe, and synth
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Berceuse: Chopin's variations on his mother's favorite lullaby
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Famous Sibelius piece was commissioned for a plywood mill anniversary
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