Music exploration, maintaining a list of albums to audit - done via Naxos, and eventually Qobuz / instead of Idagio, after feeling constrained (2025-9) by its narrow-ranging collection : privately see https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-online-service-providers-RAEcBWVqSyiotwfBnzCSpA : following Perplexity’s advice (2025-8) - beginning with Naxos alone : see `^*• Naxos music libraries$` ∵ I get free access from TPL, though only at 128 Kbps : see `^*, free access.+from Toronto Public Library$` @ `^*• Naxos music libraries$` / better quality audio is costly with Naxos, relative to its rivals, who have much deeper collections ∵ though Naxos’s collection is relatively small, still it probably suffices for the purpose of discovery ∵ it ranges broadly : see `Naxos libraries to which the TPL gives access: jazz.+world.+default`p : covering most, if not all, of their collection / its relative smallness is due wholly to its shallowness, having a small number of performance recordings (low depth) across the breadth of its works ∵ its claimed rate of growth is adequate for ongoing discovery : see https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/ : 200,455 discs, 3,050,643 tracks, and ‘hundreds of albums added each month’ ∵ its recordings include abundant metadata / like Idagio’s, says Perplexity - adding Qobuz when Naxos proves insufficient / eventually it will, if not for exploration, then at least for listening purposes ∵ its collection is broad and deep : re `deep` see https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/discover : ‘more than 100 million tracks’ ∵ its audio quality is high ∵ its recordings include abundant metadata / comparable in abundance to Idagio’s, says Perplexity - periodically I refresh my audit list by adding new albums as follows / this audit list comprises my ‘favourite’ lists (one for each of the three Naxos libraries) which I take over for auditing purposes : re `three Naxos libraries` see `the ${same} to which the TPL gives access: jazz.+world.+default`p 1+ Add from the following Web lists of new catalogue additions: / each Web list formed both (a) with date sorting and compact entries; and (b) to cover any range of days, excluding today or yesterday, later than that of the latest list audited d+ default : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/folder : (i) passing both login guards : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/recent/recentadditions : (ii) forming the list, where the day of the latest audited is [ 2025-9-1 ] \ mark+ j+ jazz : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/jazz/folder : (i) passing both login guards : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/jazz/recent/recentadditions : (ii) forming the list, where the day of the latest audited is [ 2025-9-2 ] \ mark+ w+ world : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/world/folder : (i) passing both login guards : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/world/recent/recentadditions : (ii) forming the list, where the day of the latest audited is [ 2025-9-2 ] \ mark+ 2+ Add from the following mobile-app list of old record releases: : ad `mobile-app.+releases` : available only in the advanced search facility of the mobile apps / this list formed to cover either the page just before, or the month or year just after, that of the latest list that was audited d+ default \ originating from their earliest release as seen on 2025-9-3 / forming the list, where the page and date of the latest audited is [ p. 1, 1951 ] \ mark+ 3+ Add from the following Web lists of label-specific catalogue numbers: / each Web list formed both (a) with catalogue sorting; and (b) to cover either the page, or (lexically) the label, just before that of the latest list that was audited j+ jazz \ originating from their lexically last label as seen on 2025-9-3 : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/jazz/folder : (i) passing both login guards : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/jazz/label : (ii) forming the list, where the page and label of the latest audited is [ p. 1, Zefir Records ] \ mark+ w+ world \ originating from their lexically last label as seen on 2025-9-3 : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/world/folder : (i) passing both login guards : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/world/label : (ii) forming the list, where the page and label of the latest audited is [ p. 20, World Music Records ] \ mark+ history - short histories of Western music that are praised by scholarly critics 1972, Jacobs. A short history of Western music. : see https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-short-histories-of-wester-XmIl7JvMTjinWUJ7oBrjsA : ‘now considered somewhat dated’ / not in city library 2006, Griffiths. A concise history of Western music. : see https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-short-histories-of-wester-XmIl7JvMTjinWUJ7oBrjsA : ‘praised … for giving "100 [of 348 total] pages of excellent coverage to 20th-century music"’ : see https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM259646&R=259646 2013, Taruskin and Gibbs. Oxford history of Western music, college edition. : see https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-short-histories-of-wester-XmIl7JvMTjinWUJ7oBrjsA : “a condensed version of Taruskin’s acclaimed six-volume work” : see https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3002342&R=3002342 streaming services high fidelity • Idagio : see https://www.idagio.com/ca : see https://app.idagio.com/ - up to more-or-less lossless sound quality (FLAC recordings) - has the largest library of ‘classical’ recordings N.B. tracks are often disordered and mislabeled ∴ avoid ‘complete works’ albums with many tracks ∵ there disorder is more likely, and often accumulates down the track list • National Film Board / mostly free streaming, but not generally oriented to music, of course - better than 128 Kbps sound quality in the audio tracks of 1080p video streams : note : probably also 720p (according to Google Gemini), at least in the films where it matters, because the NFB prioritizes sound quality • Qobuz : see https://www.qobuz.com/ca-en/discover : ‘more than 100 million tracks’ - broad coverage, high audio quality and relatively abundant metadata / the latter comparable to Idagio’s : see https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-online-service-providers-RAEcBWVqSyiotwfBnzCSpA low fidelity, but with free streaming • CBC music playlists : see https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists - 128 Kbps : see https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/articles/360034919633-CBC-Listen-App-Your-questions-answered#h_8683a30d-ac62-4f9e-8d26-22919a97b765 • Naxos music libraries : see https://naxosmusicgroup.com/online-music-services/#nwd , free access at 128 Kbps sound quality from Toronto Public Library : see https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/downloads-ebooks/mobile-apps.jsp#movies : instruction and app-download URLs for each of the three Naxos libraries to which the TPL gives access: jazz, world and the default library, the latter mostly traditional Western fine music (baroque, classical etc.) , URLs to log in: / a two-stage process, authenticating first with TPL to access the Naxos Web app, second with Naxos to access my TPL data there (e.g. favourites, playlists) : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/folder : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/jazz/folder : see https://tpl-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/world/folder : cf. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/downloads-ebooks/digital-video-music.jsp#music : Chrome only : see https://assets.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/NML/en/MobileAccess/NML-App-UserGuide20240205.pdf : user guide for the mobile app • Spotify - 128 Kbps (maximum) sound quality using the Web player \ - 160 Kbps (maximum) sound quality using their mobile app \\ riddled with ads no doubt / higher rates for paid subscriptions - use a private-browing tab on Firefox for Android / else fails, saying playback of protected content is disabled \ !! sends an authentication challenge by email (‘login with password’) \ at every login (*with* password!) \\ must explicitly request login with password • YouTube - 128 Kbps (maximum) sound quality / higher rates for paid subscriptions, e.g. those of YouTube Music ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ W o r k s ─ t h o s e I w o u l d c a r e t o h e a r a g a i n ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ / Anonymous works are ordered by the decade of their (mean estimated) year of composition; composers by the decade of their 50th year, if any, otherwise their final year. : re `50th year` cf. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2016.1162489 : Franses, Philip Hans. 2016. ‘When did classic composers make their best work?’ *Creativity Research Journal* 28, no. 2: 219–221. His claim for an ‘average age of peak creativity … around 39 years’ rests on weak evidence. ╶ ╶ ╶ ● Han Gong qiu yue (Autumn moon over the Han Palace) — aka Qiu shan yin (Autumn fan intonation); Han Gong qiu (Autumn in the Han Palace); Han Gong qiu yuan (Autumn lament in the Han Palace) / no reliable date of origin : see https://www.silkqin.com/02qnpu/16xltq/xl121hgq.htm : Here John Thompson refers to the melody’s popular ‘re-introduction in 1589.’ This implies an earlier date of origin, yet how much earlier is unclear. ● Plainsong liturgical chants / Christian plainchant developed from the Jewish, which likely developed in turn from that of other liturgies in the ancient near East, such that dating an ultimate origin seems infeasible. ╶ ╶ ╶ ╶ ╶ ╶ 780 ╶ 790 800 ╶ 810 ╶ 820 ╶ 830 ╶ 840 ● Polyphonic chants of Christian liturgy / No liturgy prior the Christian is known to have developed such chants. / There the initial form was organum (∼9th century) which added a second voice. — 850 ╶ 860 ╶ 870 ╶ 880 ╶ 890 900 ╶ 910 ╶ 920 ╶ 930 ╶ 940 — 950 ╶ 960 ╶ 970 ╶ 980 ╶ 990 1000 ━━━━━━━━━━━ Narekatsi ─ Grigor Narekatsi, ∼950-1003/1011 ─────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Narek ● Havun havun : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havun_Havun_(medieval_Armenian_chant) ╶ 1010 ╶ 1020 ╶ 1030 ╶ 1040 — 1050 ╶ 1060 ╶ 1070 ╶ 1080 ╶ 1090 1100 ╶ 1110 ╶ 1120 ╶ 1130 ╶ 1140 ━━━━━━━━ Bingen ─ Hildegard von Bingen, aka Hildegardis Bingensis, ∼1098-1179 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen ● Ave generosa : see http://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/09/ave-generosa-hymn.html : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_generosa_(Hildegard_von_Bingen) ● O gloriosissimi lux vivens angeli : see http://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/10/o-gloriosissimi-lux-vivens-angeli-antiphon.html : see https://imslp.org/wiki/O_gloriosissimi_lux_vivens_angeli_(Hildegard) — 1150 ━━━━━━━━ Nerses ─ Nerses IV the Gracious, aka Saint Nerses the Graceful, ──────── Nerses Shnorhali, Nerses of Kla, 1102-1173 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerses_IV_the_Gracious ● Luys, Ararich luso : e.g. https://www.armenianmusic.am/en/audio/song/416 ╶ 1160 ╶ 1170 ╶ 1180 ╶ 1190 1200 ╶ 1210 ╶ 1220 ╶ 1230 ╶ 1240 — 1250 ╶ 1260 ╶ 1270 ╶ 1280 ╶ 1290 1300 ● Signe lita : see https://gemini.google.com/ : late 13th, early 14th century “When roughly is the medieval Norwegian song by an unknown composer entitled Signe lita (Little Signe) thought to have been written?” Asked to research the question deeply, Gemini answers (2025), “A precise date of creation is impossible to ascertain, as the song was a communal, anonymous work that evolved over generations. However, based on the historical context of the medieval ballad genre in Norway, the song’s origin can be placed with confidence in the late 13th or early 14th century, a period when the genre was flourishing as a form of oral history and cultural memory.” ╶ 1310 ╶ 1320 ╶ 1330 ╶ 1340 — 1350 ╶ 1360 ╶ 1370 ╶ 1380 ╶ 1390 1400 ╶ 1410 ╶ 1420 ╶ 1430 ● Vespers in the fauxbourdon form of plainchant : e.g. https://store.harmoniamundi.com/release/521054-ensemble-organum-marcel-prs-saint-louis-des-invalides-vpres-royales-1682-ad-vesperas-sancti-ludovici-regis-franciae : see https://www.perplexity.ai/ : Asked to research the date of origin, Perplexity answers (2025), ‘around 1430-1435 through the work of Guillaume Du Fay and his contemporaries in the Burgundian School’. ╶ 1440 — 1450 ● Une jeune fillette : see https://chantsdefrance.fr/repertoire/chants/une-jeune-fillette : melody ∼14th century ‘Première apparition écrite du chant dans un recueil de Jehan Chardavoine datant de 1576. La mélodie est déjà attestée au XVème.’ : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Une_jeune_fillette_(Chardavoine,_Jehan) : published 1576 ━━━━━━━━━━ Binchois ─ Gilles de Bins dit Binchois, ∼1400-1460 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Binchois : see https://www.diamm.ac.uk/people/153/ ● Agnus Dei \ the mass movement by this name, of which he may have composed more than one : e.g. https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/gilles-binchois-loyal-souvenir ● Jamais tant que je vous revoye : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Jamais_tant_que_je_vous_revoye_(Binchois%2C_Gilles) ● Sanctus \ the mass movement by this name, of which he may have composed more than one : e.g. https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/gilles-binchois-loyal-souvenir ╶ 1460 ╶ 1470 ╶ 1480 ● Dindirindin : see https://stcpress.org/pieces/dindirin_dindirin : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Dindirindin_(Anonymous) : see https://gemini.google.com/ : ∼1488 “When roughly was the choral piece by an unknown composer entitled Dindirindin created? It was published roughly 1465-1505 according to , where see Barb. 445.” Asked to research the question deeply, Gemini answers (2025), roughly “between 1475 and 1500.” ╶ 1490 1500 ╶ 1510 ╶ 1520 ╶ 1530 ╶ 1540 ━━━━━━━━━━ Taverner ─ John Taverner, ∼1490-1545 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taverner ● O splendor gloriae : join @ `^^Tye ─ Christopher` : co-composer : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/6/61/Taverner&Tye-OSplendor.pdf : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/O_splendor_gloriae_(John_Taverner) : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taverner#Votive_antiphons — 1550 ━━━━━━━━ Tallis ─ Thomas Tallis, aka Tallys, Talles, ∼1505-1585 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tallis : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Thomas_Tallis ● Dum transisset Sabbatum : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Dum_transisset_Sabbatum_(Thomas_Tallis) : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Dum_transisset_Sabbatum_(Tallis,_Thomas) ━━━━━ Tye ─ Christopher Tye, ∼1505-1572/3 ───── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tye ● O splendor gloriae : join @ `^^Taverner ─ John.+1490-1545$` : co-composer ╶ 1560 ━━━━━━━━ Susato ─ Tielman Susato, aka Tylman Susato, 1510/15-? (after 1570) ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tielman_Susato : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Tielman_Susato / most works, I suspect, given La danserye : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Danserye_(Susato) ╶ 1570 ━━━━━━━━━━ Guerrero ─ Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Guerrero_(composer) ● Regina caeli : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Regina_caeli_a_4_(Francisco_Guerrero) : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Regina_caeli_a_8_(Francisco_Guerrero) / his settings of the namesake antiphon ╶ 1580 ● Watkin’s ale / aka Watkins ale, Mother Watkin’s ale : see https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172655 : ≤ 1592: ‘Earliest date: mentioned twice in 1592 (Munday, Chettle)’ ╶ 1590 ● Bara Faustus’s dreame / aka Bara Faustus’ dreame : see http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/music.html : ‘Music: in Ballet MS lute book p. 29 (late 16th c.)’ : see https://www.perplexity.ai/ : Asked to research on the date of composition, Perplexity answers (2025), “late 16th century, specifically around 1590-1600.” “The dating aligns with the broader context of the Faustus legend’s popularity in England. Christopher Marlowe’s famous play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was written between 1588-1592 and first performed around 1594, indicating that Faustus-themed works were particularly fashionable during this period.” ━━━━━━ Byrd ─ William Byrd, ∼1540-1623 ────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_William_Byrd ╷ Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, liber 1 ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Gradualia_I_(William_Byrd) : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Gradualia_ac_cantiones_sacrae,_Liber_1_(Byrd,_William) 37, Ave verum corpus : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_verum_corpus_(William_Byrd) : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Ave_verum_corpus_(Byrd,_William) ━━━━━━━━━━ Holborne ─ Anthony Holborne, ∼1545-1602 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Holborne ╷ Pavans, galliards, almains and other short aeirs ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ / viz. *Pavans, galliards, almains and other short aeirs, both grave, and light, in five parts, for viols, violins, or other musicall winde instruments* : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Pavans,_Galliards,_Almains_and_other_Short_Aeirs_(Holborne,_Anthony) 63, The fairie-round ━━━━━━━━━━ Victoria ─ Tomás Luis de Victoria, ∼1548-1611∼ ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria ● Missa Ave maris stella : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria#Masses : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Ave_maris_stella_(Victoria%2C_Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de) / a setting of the Mass ordinary 1600 ━━━━━━━━ Morley ─ Thomas Morley, 1557-1602 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley ● O mistress mine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Mistress_Mine : published 1599 ╶ 1610 ● Duncombes Galliard : see https://gemini.google.com/ : Asked to research deeply the date of composition, Gemini answers (2025), ‘around the turn of the 17th century, most likely between the late 16th century (c. 1590s) and the first quarter of the 17th century (c. 1625). The c. 1600 date of The Weld Lute Manuscript serves as a strong indicator for composition immediately prior to or at that time, with the Marsh Library manuscript confirming its continued relevance and circulation into the early 17th century.’ ━━━━━━━━ Danyel ─ John Danyel, aka John Daniel, 1564-1626∼ ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danyel ╷ Songs for the lute, viol and voice ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_songs-for-the-lute-viol_danyel-john_1606 1, Coy Daphne fled 2, Thou pretty bird 3, He whose desires are still abroad \ 4-5, no 6, Why canst thou not? \ 7-11, no 12, Let not Chloris think \ 13-17, no 18, I die whenas I do not see 19, What delight can they enjoy? \ 20, no ━━━━━━━━━ Dowland ─ John Dowland, ∼1563-1626 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dowland most ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Monteverdi ─ Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, 1567-1643 ──────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi / most works, I suspect, given L’Orfeo ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Pilkington ─ Francis Pilkington, ∼1565-1638 ──────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pilkington ● Echo for two lutes : https://wp.lutemusic.org/music-piece/26-25-echo-almain-francis-pilkington-gb-abnational-library-of-wales/ : ≤ 1595, when published in the Brogyntyn lute book ╶ 1620 ━━━━━━━━━ Gibbons ─ Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gibbons : see https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/orlando-gibbons : see https://www.musicabritannica.org.uk/volumes.html : MB vols. 20, 48 ● Go from my window : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Orlando_Gibbons#Other_pieces_for_viols : MB 48/40, under vol. 48 § Dances and divisions a 6 / likely 1617-1625 : see https://www.jstor.org/stable/765993 : ‘It is likely that much of the dance music — both for keyboard and strings — was written after his appointment in 1619 [now thought to be 1617] as a musician of the Privy Chamber, for dancing was much in vogue at court and dance-music was enjoyed also in its own right.’ Gerald Hendrie, 1962. The keyboard music of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). ● Pavan and galliard for six viols : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Orlando_Gibbons#Other_pieces_for_viols : MB 48/41 and 48/42, under vol. 48 § Dances and divisions a 6 / likely 1617-1625 : join @ `^*● Go from my window$` : see also https://gemini.google.com/ : Asked for deep research on the date of composition, Gemini estimates (2025), ‘following his appointment as a musician of the Privy Chamber in 1617.’ ╷ Fantasies of three parts ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Orlando_Gibbons#Fantasies_of_Three_Parts 2-3 ╷ fantasias ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ─ viol, of two parts : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Orlando_Gibbons#Viol_fantasias_of_two_parts 1-2 ─ viol, of six parts : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Orlando_Gibbons#Viol_fantasias_of_six_parts 1 \ 2, no 3-6 ╶ 1630 ━━━━━━━━ Arañés ─ Juan Arañés, ∼1580-1649∼ ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ara%C3%B1%C3%A9s : died ∼1649 : see https://www.perplexity.ai/ : born ∼1580 “Is there any evidence to support even a rough birth date for the composer Juan Arañés?” Asked to research the question, Perplexity answers (2025), ‘there is consistent scholarly consensus supporting a birth date of approximately 1580… based on logical deduction from his documented career activities, educational background, and professional appointments.’ ╷ Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ara%C3%B1%C3%A9s : published 1624, ‘The first book is lost.’ ● Un sarao de la chacona : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Un_sarao_de_la_chacona_(Chacona_%27A_la_vida_bona%27)_(Juan_Ara%C3%B1%C3%A9s) : see https://victoria.uma.es/varios/pdf/Aranes-Chacona.pdf ╶ 1640 — 1650 ━━━━━━━━ Kühnel ─ August Kühnel, 1645-1700∼ ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_K%C3%BChnel ╷ Sonate ò partite ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://imslp.org/wiki/14_Sonate_%C3%B2_Partite_(K%C3%BChnel,_August) 12 ╶ 1660 ╶ 1670 ● Woodycock : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Woodycock_(Anonymous) : see https://gemini.google.com/ : published ∼1670 Asked to research deeply its date of composition, Gemini reports (2025) that Woodycock is ‘definitively identified as a “Division” piece contained within the *Manchester Gamba Book*. This significant manuscript of solo viol music is consistently dated by multiple sources to… circa 1660-1680, with a strong estimation around 1670.’ ╶ 1680 ━━━━━━━ Pezel ─ Johann Christoph Pezel, aka Petzold or Pecelius, 1639-1694 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Pezel ╷ Hora decima musicorum Lipsiensium: in 40 sonatas with 5 voices ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Hora_decima_musicorum_Lipsiensium_(Pezel%2C_Johann_Christoph) 1 2 ╶ 1690 ━━━━━━━━━ Purcell ─ Henry Purcell, ∼1659-1695 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell / most works, I suspect, given Dido and Aeneas 1700 ━━━━━━━━ Torelli ─ Giuseppe Torelli, 1658-1709 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Torelli ● Trumpet concerto in D major : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_in_D_major_%27Estienne_Roger_188%27_(Torelli%2C_Giuseppe) ╶ 1710 ╶ 1720 ━━━━━━━━━━━ Valentine ─ Robert Valentine, aka Roberto Valentini, Roberto Valentino, ∼1671-1747 ─────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Valentine_(composer) / most works, I suspect, given performances I heard : viz. https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/v/valentine-chamber-music/ : Brilliant Classics, 2025. *Robert Valentine, chamber music.* No. 97683. ━━━━━━━━━ Vivaldi ─ Antonio Vivaldi, 1678-1741 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi most ╶ 1730 ━━━━━━ Bach ─ Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 ────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach : see https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/learn-engage/bach-notes-and-translations most \ ● Saint John passion, no ━━━━━━━━ Handel ─ George Frideric Handel, 1685-1759 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel most ━━━━━━━━ Mouret ─ Jean-Joseph Mouret, 1682-1738 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Mouret / most works, I suspect, given his first Suite de symphonies, or Sinfonies de fanfares : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_of_Symphonies_for_brass,_strings_and_timpani_No._1 ━━━━━━━━ Rameau ─ Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1683-1764 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Rameau / most works, I suspect, given Castor et Pollux ━━━━━━━━ Seiber ─ Ignazio Sieber, ∼1680-1757∼ ──────── : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Sieber,_Ignazio ╷ sonatas, recorder & continuo ─ nos. N of 7-12, as follows ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://imslp.org/wiki/6_Recorder_Sonatas_(Sieber%2C_Ignazio) : see https://calliopessister.com/2013/01/11/ignazio-siebers-recorder-sonatas/ : ‘published, probably in 1722’ : re `of 7-12` see https://imslp.org/wiki/6_Recorder_Sonatas_(Sieber%2C_Ignazio) : ‘These were [published as] nos. 7-12 of *XII Sonates à une flûte et basse continue*, and nos. 1-6 were by Johann Galliard’. 8, G minor ━━━━━━━━━━ Telemann ─ Georg Philipp Telemann, 1681-1767 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Philipp_Telemann most ╶ 1740 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Brescianello ─ Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, ∼1690-1758 ────────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Antonio_Brescianello most ━━━━━━━ Hasse ─ Johann Adolph Hasse, 1699-1783 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Adolph_Hasse / most works, I suspect, given Piramo e Tisbe — 1750 ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bernasconi ─ Andrea Bernasconi, ∼1706-1784 ──────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Bernasconi / most works, I suspect, given L’Huomo ╶ 1760 ━━━━━━━ Rolle ─ Johann Heinrich Rolle, 1716-1785 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Rolle most ╶ 1770 ━━━━━ Gow ─ Niel Gow, 1727-1807 ───── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niel_Gow ● Niel Gow’s lament for the death of his second wife : see https://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/11313 ╶ 1780 ━━━━━━ Bach ─ Johann Christian Bach, 1735-1782 ────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Johann_Christian_Bach most ━━━━━━━ Haydn ─ Franz Joseph Haydn, 1732-1809 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Joseph_Haydn ● Trumpet concerto in E-flat major : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn) : 1796 ╷ sonatas, piano ─ nos. N of Hob. 16:N, as follows ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solo_piano_compositions_by_Joseph_Haydn#Piano_sonatas 6 : note : 1767 ╷ quartets, string ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_string_quartets_by_Joseph_Haydn ─ op. 33, aka Russian : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartets,_Op._33_(Haydn) \ 29, aka op. 33 no. 5, no \ 33-34, aka op. 33 nos. 4, 6; no ╷ concerti, cello ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concertos_by_Joseph_Haydn#For_violoncello 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Concerto_No._2_(Haydn) : 1783 ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Joseph_Haydn 1 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Haydn) : ‘between 1757 and 1761’ 4 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Haydn) : 1759 16 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._16_(Haydn) : ‘between 1757 and 1761’ 22 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._46_(Haydn) : 1764 36 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._36_(Haydn) : ‘some time in the first half of the 1760s’ \ 39, no \ 42, no 46 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._46_(Haydn) : 1772 \ 47, no \ 49, no \ 64, no ╶ 1790 ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Boccherini ─ Luigi Boccherini, 1743-1805 ──────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Boccherini ╷ concerti, cello ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 9 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Concerto_No._9_(Boccherini) : ‘either the late 1760s or early 1770s’ ━━━━━━━━ Mozart ─ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6chel_catalogue ╷ piano music ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ─ solo : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solo_piano_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart ─ sonatas : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solo_piano_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Sonatas all 18, or nearly so, 1774-1789 ─ four-hands : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Piano_four-hands 501, K. : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Piano_four-hands ─ dual piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Two_pianos \ ● Sonata for two pianos, K 448, no ╷ quartets ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ─ piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Piano_quartets 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Quartet_No._2_(Mozart) ─ string : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#String_quartets 1 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._1_(Mozart) ─ Milanese : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milanese_Quartets_(Mozart) 2-7 \ all ╷ quintets ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ● Quintet for piano and winds : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintet_for_Piano_and_Winds_(Mozart) ╷ serenades ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Serenades 10 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade_No._10_(Mozart) ╷ concerti, adagios and rondos ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ● Trumpet concerto in D major : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Leopold_Mozart) ─ horn : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Concertos_(Mozart) 1-4 \ all ─ piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_concertos_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart 5-27 \ all ─ violin : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Violin_concertos ● Adagio for violin and orchestra : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagio_in_E_for_Violin_and_Orchestra_(Mozart) ● Rondo in B flat for violin and orchestra : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_in_B-flat_for_Violin_and_Orchestra_(Mozart) ● Rondo in C for violin and orchestra : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_in_C_for_Violin_and_Orchestra_(Mozart) 1-5 \ all : e.g. https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/mozart-violin-concertos/ : the violin not sounding too harsh, as in recordings I had heard earlier ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart \ 1, no \ 4-10, no ● K. 81, nominal 44 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony,_K._81_(Mozart) 11 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._11_(Mozart) : authorship ‘uncertain’ \ 12-17, no 18 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._18_(Mozart) \ 19-27, no 28-29 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._28_(Mozart) : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._29_(Mozart) \ 30-36, no 38, aka Prague : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._38_(Mozart) 41, aka Jupiter : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._41_(Mozart) ╷ symphonies, concertante ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#Concertante_symphonies ● Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinfonia_Concertante_for_Violin,_Viola_and_Orchestra_(Mozart) 1800 ↓ Western fine music enters its Romantic period, bent on paths of chromaticity and outright dissonance, as appears for instance in later works of Beethoven. : see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_from_Classical_to_Romantic_music / Gradually thereby it seems to have alienated its listeners, ultimately to lose them and therewith its vitality. : re `to lose them` see `Today its new works attract almost no listeners` @ `^*1900$` ╶ 1810 ● Attende, Domine : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attende,_Domine : The melody ‘is a musical plainsong created in the early 19th century.’ While the text is ‘adapted from [a] Mozarabic rite which can be traced back to the 10th century’. : see https://gemini.google.com/ : After long discussion on the question of dating (2025), Gemini grants, ‘Yes, the Paris Processional publication did tie the melody to the text. The evidence indicates that the 1824 Paris Processional was the first known publication to pair that specific, now-standard melody with the ancient Mozarabic text’. Given that, the most likely decade of its final composition (text plus melody) is 1810. ╶ 1820 • Impromptus, op. posth. 142, no. 1 ─ Schubert : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptus,_Op._142_(Schubert) : 1827 : pace `^ +\\ Schubert.+ no$` ━━━━━━━━━━━ Beethoven ─ Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 ─────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven ╷ solo piano ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Solo_piano_music ─ sonatas : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Piano_sonatas \ 5, no \ 8-10, no \ 16-18, no \ 23-24, no \ 26-27, no \ 30, no ╷ chamber ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Chamber_music ─ piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Chamber_music_with_piano ─ pairings with solo instrument : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Solo_instrument_and_piano ● Violin sonata 5, aka Spring : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._5_(Beethoven) : published 1801 ─ trios : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Piano_trios ● Kakadu Variations : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakadu_Variations : ∼1803 \ 3, no 4 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Trio,_Op._11_(Beethoven) : 1797 / at least with a violin vs. clarinet \ 6-7, no ╷ concerti ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Concertos ─ piano 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Beethoven) : 1787-89 1 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._1_(Beethoven) : 1795 \ 3, no 4, i : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._4_(Beethoven)#I._Allegro_moderato \ 5, no ─ op. \ 56, Concerto for violin, cello, and piano (aka Triple), no \ 61, Violin concerto in D major, no ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ludwig_van_Beethoven#Symphonies \ 6, no \ ━━━━━━━━━━ \ Schubert ─ Franz Peter Schubert, 1797-1828 ─ no \ ────────── \ ╶ 1830 ━━━━━━━━━━ Paganini ─ Niccolò Paganini, aka Nicolò Paganini, 1782-1840 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini \ ● 24 Caprices for solo violin, no ╶ 1840 ━━━━━━━━ Chopin ─ Frédéric François Chopin, né Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, 1810-1849 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin_by_genre : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin_by_opus_number \ ● Ballades 1-4, no \ ● Fantasy op. 49, no \ ● Piano concertos 1-2, no ╷ nocturnes ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 20 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_in_C-sharp_minor,_Op._posth._(Chopin) : 1830 ╷ waltzes ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 64, 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz_in_C-sharp_minor,_Op._64,_No._2_(Chopin) : published 1847 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mendelssohn ─ Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809-1847 ───────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn ╷ concerti, violin ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn) : ‘The autograph score is dated 16 September 1844’. ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ \ 3, no 5, aka Reformation : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Mendelssohn) : 1830 ━━━━━━━━━ Rossini ─ Gioachino Antonio Rossini, 1792-1868 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini / most works, I suspect, given Armida and La Cenerentola — 1850 ━━━━━━━━━━ Schumann ─ Robert Schumann, 1810-1856 ────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Schumann) : ‘He spent most of the next year orchestrating, beginning February 12, 1846… finishing the work… October 19.’ ╶ 1860 ━━━━━━━ Alkan ─ Charles-Valentin Alkan, 1813-1888 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Valentin_Alkan : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Charles-Valentin_Alkan ● Variations on a theme from Steibelt’s Orage concerto : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Variations_on_a_Theme_of_Steibelt,_Op.1_(Alkan,_Charles-Valentin) : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Charles-Valentin_Alkan#With_opus_numbers ━━━━━━━━ Wagner ─ Wilhelm Richard Wagner, 1813-1883 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner ● Symphony in C major : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_in_C_major_(Wagner) : 1832 ● Parsifal: ein Bühnenweihfestspiel : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal : 1882 ╶ 1870 ╶ 1880 ━━━━━━━━ Brahms ─ Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms ● Three intermezzi for piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Intermezzi_for_piano,_Op._117_(Brahms) : 1892 ╷ pieces, Six for piano ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Pieces_for_Piano,_Op._118_(Brahms) : 1893 2 \ alone ╷ concerti ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ● Double : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Concerto_(Brahms) : 1887, violin & cello ─ piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Johannes_Brahms#Piano_concertos 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Brahms) : 1881 / none of the four symphonies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Saint-Saëns ─ Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921 ───────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns ● Introduction and rondo capriccioso : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_and_Rondo_Capriccioso \ ● Violin concerto 1, no ╶ 1890 ━━━━━━━ Grieg ─ Edvard Hagerup Grieg, 1843-1907 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Edvard_Grieg \ ● Piano concerto in A minor, op. 16, no ╷ Lyric pieces ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Pieces : in ten books 6-7 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric_Pieces#Complete_listing : ∼1890 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tchaikovsky ─ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893 ───────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky ╷ concertante pieces ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#Concertos_and_concertante_pieces ╷ concertos ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#Concertos_and_concertante_pieces ● violin : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Tchaikovsky) ─ piano \ 1, no ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#Symphonies : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonies_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky 1900 ↓ Jazz becomes the new fine music of the West, supplanting the old tradition in its late Romantic stage. / Or so it appears, the old tradition never recovering the vitality it lost through its dissonant adventures. Today its new works attract almost no listeners. : re `vitality.+lost` see `to lose.+therewith its vitality`s @ `^*1800$` ╶ 1910 ━━━━━━━━━ Debussy ─ Achille Claude Debussy, 1862-1918 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Claude_Debussy \ ● Noturnes L 98, no ● Suite bergamasque : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_bergamasque : ∼1890 ● The little nigar, cakewalk / aka Le petit nègre, The little negro : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Nigar : 1909 ╷ chamber ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Claude_Debussy#Chamber ─ Six sonates pour divers instruments : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_sonatas_for_various_instruments#Sonata_for_flute,_viola_and_harp : ‘only half’ of which are completed \ 2, for flute, viola and harp; no ━━━━━━━━ Mahler ─ Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler \ symphonies 1-2, 6, 9; no ━━━━━━━ Satie ─ Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, 1866-1925 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie ● [Discoveries] / a postumous collection of short works, most of them new discoveries : see https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/satie-discoveries : see https://interlude.hk/unveiling-erik-satie-a-century-of-discoveries/ : see https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death : ∼1910: ‘Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written… in the early decades of the 20th century.’ \ ━━━━━━━━━━ \ Sibelius ─ Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957 ─ no \ ────────── ╶ 1920 ━━━━━━━ Holst ─ Gustav Theodore Holst, 1873-1943 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Gustav_Holst ● Nunc dimittis : see https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Nunc_dimittis_(1915)_(Gustav_Holst) : see https://imslp.org/wiki/Nunc_dimittis%2C_H.127_(Holst%2C_Gustav) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rachmaninoff ─ Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, 1873-1943 ────────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Sergei_Rachmaninoff ╷ orchestra ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Sergei_Rachmaninoff#Orchestra ─ piano and orchesta ─ concerti 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._2_(Rachmaninoff) 3 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._3_(Rachmaninoff) ─ symphony 2, iii : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Rachmaninoff)#Third_movement ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vaughan Williams ─ Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 ────────────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams ● Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis / aka Tallis fantasia : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_on_a_Theme_by_Thomas_Tallis : commissioned and composed in 1910 ╶ 1930 ━━━━━━━━ Bartók ─ Béla Viktor János Bartók, 1881-1945 ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k ╷ piano ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k#Piano ─ Ten Easy Pieces : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Easy_Pieces_(Bart%C3%B3k) 1, Peasant song / at least on accordian ╷ chamber ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k#Chamber ─ string quartets : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_string_quartets_by_B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k \ 5-6, no ╶ 1940 ━━━━━ Li ─ Li Lin, ?-1940-? ───── ● Yimeng Mountain song / composed with lyricist Ruan Ruoshan in 1940, as *Oppose the Yellow Sand Society* : see http://www.herongyang.com/Chinese/Music/1940-Yi-Meng-Shan-Xiao-Tiao.html : see https://inf.news/en/culture/cadc401fd2e645e2ecd237b4e83e1633.html / numerous claims of it being a traditional folk song (even UNESCO recognized) appear to have no reliable source — 1950 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Shostakovich ─ Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, 1906-1975 ────────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich : see https://www.boosey.com/downloads/schostakowitsch_werkverzeichnis.pdf : *Shostakovich, work list*, published by Boosey and Hawkes, Sikorski. ● Anti-formalist rayok : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiformalist_Rayok / at least in a voice, chorus and orchestra arrangement : e.g. https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/en/products/nils-monkemeyer-shostakovich-discoveries-world-premiere-recordings-rarities ● Impromptu / viola and piano : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich#Other_chamber/instrumental_works : see https://www.thestrad.com/news/a-new-work-for-viola-by-shostakovich-discovered-in-moscow-state-archives/7151.article ╷ piano ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich#Piano ● Four fugues / piano, the fourth fugue (E minor) being unfinished \ : see https://www.boosey.com/downloads/schostakowitsch_werkverzeichnis.pdf : \ *Shostakovich, work list*, published by Boosey and Hawkes, Sikorski. p. 106 \ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich#In_chronological_order : \ 1934 \\ now added to the piano list ─ Preludes and fugues : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Preludes_and_Fugues_(Shostakovich) 1 \ 2-6, no 7 \ 8-9, no 10 \ 11, no 13-14 \ 15, no 16 \ 17, no 18 \ 19, no 20 \ 21, no 22-23 \ 24, no ╷ quartets, string ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich#String_quartets \ ● Two pieces for string quartet (1931), no \ 13-14, no ╷ symphonies ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Dmitri_Shostakovich#Symphonies \ 5, 13-14; no ━━━━━━━━━━ Zhubanov ─ Ahmet Kuanovich Zhubanov, 1906-1968 ────────── : see https://adebiportal.kz/en/authors/view/3736 : see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340559 ● Karlygash (swallow) : see https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8B%D2%93%D0%B0%D1%88_(%D3%99%D0%BD) : note : the Kazakh script is in transit from Cyrillic to Latin, 2017-2031∼ ╶ 1960 ● Wusuli boat song : see https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/booklets/YEC/booklet-82009.pdf : Attribution of the work to Guo Song and Wang Yuncai, no date. KK Productions Ltd., 1992. *The embroidered purse: music for ruan trio.* Yellow River, no. 82009. : re `Yellow River.+82009` q.v. @ https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=82009 : see https://folkways-media.si.edu/docs/folkways/artwork/SFW40236.pdf : Attribution of the work both to Hu Xiaoshi and Wang Yuncai (1962), and to Guo Song, Hu Songhua and others (1964). ‘The melody of “Wusuli Boat Song” was adapted from traditional tunes of the Nanai people in Heilongjiang province by a group of Chinese cultural workers in the 1960s. In 1962, preparing the second edition of the Ha’erbin Summer Music Festival, the organizing committee proposed extensive fieldwork to collect folksongs in the nearby region. … Two composers, Hu Xiaoshi and Wang Yuncai, went to a Nanai village along the Wusuli River and transcribed folksongs sung by the villagers [and] rearranged this song based on these transcriptions. In 1964, it was further popularized by singers such as Guo Song and Hu Songhua.’ Xiaoshi Wei, Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, 2020. *Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn.* Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, no. SFW40236. : re `Smithsonian.+SFW40236` q.v. @ https://folkways.si.edu/wu-fei-and-abigail-washburn ━━━━━ He ─ He Luting, 1903-1999 ───── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Luting ● Sentimental thoughts : see https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/booklets/YEC/booklet-82008.pdf : ‘an early work by He Luting, originally accompanied by yangquin (Chinese dulcimer)’ KK Productions Ltd., 1992. *Full moon at my homeland.* Yellow River, no. 82008. : q.v. @ https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=82008 ╶ 1970 ━━━━━━━━━ Xenakis ─ Giannis Klearchou Xenakis, aka Iannis Xenakis, Yannis Xenakis, 1922-2001 ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis ● Dhipli zyia : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Iannis_Xenakis#Unpublished_or_withdrawn ╶ 1980 ━━━━━━━ Mawby ─ Colin Mawby, 1936-2019 ─────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Mawby ● The reproaches : see https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/the-reproaches-20975448.html : see https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/reproaches ╶ 1990 ━━━━━━━━ McLean ─ Donald McLean III, 1945- ──────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean ● Vincent : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_(Don_McLean_song) 2000 ━━━━━━ Hoff ─ Jan Gunnar Hoff, 1958- ────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gunnar_Hoff ● Living : see `^*• Living` @ non-fractal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gunnar_Hoff#Selected_works : see `^Living` @ `^*Tracklist$` @ non-fractal https://www.discogs.com/master/637685-Jan-Gunnar-Hoff-Living : first track of namesake album ━━━━━━━━━ Pletnev ─ Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev, 1957- ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Pletnev ● Mémoires musicales : see https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/pletnev-trumpet-concerto-14-memoires-musicales ╶ 2010 ━━━━━━ Aase ─ Andreas Aase, 1967- ────── : see https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Aase ● Ane : join @ `^^Eide ─ Sturla` : co-composer : see http://www.2l.no/e-book/2L017.pdf : (record liner notes) ‘Tovassvalsen, by Trygve and Hallvard Ørsal / Storpolsdansen, by Hallvard Ørsal. The latter can be traced back to Gottfred von Eppingen, who allegedly owned the fiddle used [here] by Sturla … Ane played a lot of guitar with her fiddling brother, Trygve Ørsal. They were … Hallvard Ørsal's children, and Ane was named after Hallvard's mother.’ : q.v. @ https://shop.2l.no/collections/all/products/glimmer-sturla-eide-andreas-aase : (record) 2L Records, 2003. *Glimmer.* No. 2L-017-CD. : pace https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimmer_(album) : It being a composite arrangement of two components that cohere musically to give the whole a unity and beauty of its own, I credit *Ane* to its co-arrangers/performers Eide and Aase. ━━━━━━━━━ Wiseman ─ Debbie Wiseman, 1963- ───────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wiseman ● Together : see https://www.classicfm.com/composers/debbie-wiseman/download-sheet-music-together-piano-piece/ ● The traveller : see https://www.fabermusic.com/news/debbie-wiseman-ten-book-album : recording ╶ 2020 ━━━━━━ Eide ─ Sturla Eide, 1975- ────── : see https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturla_Eide ● Ane : join @ `^^Aase ─ Andreas` : co-composer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ichmouratov ─ Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov, 1973- ───────────── : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airat_Ichmouratov ╷ concerti, viola ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 2 : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airat_Ichmouratov#Concerti_with_orchestra ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ R e c o r d i n g s ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━ Bach ─ Johann Sebastian Bach ────── Art of fugue, viz. Die Kunst der Fuge : see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Fugue ‣ 1956, Helmut Walcha : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-j-s-organ-works-4AA2384C-9D25-407F-90B2-058E2D453320 ‣ 1962-1967, Glenn Gould : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-the-art-of-the-fugue-fugues-1-9 ‣ 1975, Neville Marriner : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-j-s-the-complete-orchestral-works - Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields ‣ 1986, Davitt Moroney : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/j-s-bach-die-kunst-der-fuge-bwv-1080-the-art-of-fugue Christmas oratorio, viz. Weihnachtsoratorium : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-1-Eng10.htm : 1, libretto of first cantata : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-2-Eng10.htm : 2 : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-3-Eng10.htm : 3 : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-4-Eng10.htm : 4 : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-5-Eng10.htm : 5 : see https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV248-6-Eng10.htm : 6 ‣ 1965, Karl Richter : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-christmas-oratorio-D5CCCF88-E461-4742-BCDC-49F5D47CF8B9 - soloists, Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester ‣ 1972, Nikolaus Harnoncourt : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-js-weihnachtsoratorium-christmas-oratorio-49DD2458-9F89-4A87-8F5D-E1758AD2B474 : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-js-weihnachtsoratorium-christmas-oratorio-0F5E5184-3404-454D-9FFA-7E971E9E15E5 - soloists, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Concentus Musicus Wien / period ‣ 1987, John Eliot Gardiner : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-j-s-christmas-oratorio-4B1CEFB5-A05B-4751-BD80-258F20D891D4 - soloists, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / period ‣ 1997, René Jacobs : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/j-s-bach-christmas-oratorio-E103D37E-49A6-4080-BEA8-A7CF4B1F63F6 - soloists, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / experimental ‣ 1998, Masaaki Suzuki : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-christmas-oratorio-bwv-248-BFCA46D5-E665-4A26-9FD5-D66ECC58D587 - soloists, Bach Collegium Japan / period ‣ 2006, Nikolaus Harnoncourt : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-christmas-oratorio - soloists, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien / period \ ?+ how does it compare with his 1970 performance? \ \ it is said to be more mature, more preferred [AI bot] ‣ 2015, John Butt : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/j-s-bach-christmas-oratorio-25648E1D-6C27-4D85-AED1-926FE4A36802 - soloists, Dunedin Consort / period, downscaled Mass in B minor, viz. Messe in h-Moll : see https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-notes/bwv-232 : see https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-translations/bwv-232 : libetto / a setting of the Mass ordinary ‣ 1961, Karl Richter : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232-62CAB346-5D27-4828-B56A-AC4C39B2DC44 - soloists, Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester ‣ 1967, Otto Klemperer : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232-remastered - soloists, New Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Chorus ‣ 1985, John Eliot Gardiner : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-j-s-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232 - soloists, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists London Oratory Junior Choir / period ‣ 1985, Andrew Parrott : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/mass-in-b-minor - soloists, Taverner Consort, Taverner Players / period, downscaled ‣ 1996, Philippe Herreweghe : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor - soloists, Collegium Vocale Gent / period ‣ 2006, 2008 or 2009, Sigiswald Kuijken : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-h-moll-messe-F5B4D3DB-DFB1-49A4-ABDB-16A4980DAADE : the album cover shown by Idagio matches this recording (the later, better one), but then Idagio lists the soloists from the earlier 2000/2001 recording : cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_B_minor_discography : cf. https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Kuijken-Rec3.htm : cf. https://lapetitebande.be/en/discography / uncertain which is wrong: the soloist list (recording being correct); or the album cover (recording being the earlier one) : see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lydn1pQh7PQ - La Petite Bande / period, downscaled ‣ 2007, Masaaki Suzuki : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-mass-in-b-minor-6789E0C3-2A4E-4795-B1D8-62E62B536BD3 - soloists, Bach Collegium Japan / period Saint Matthew passion, viz. Matthäus-Passion : see https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-notes/bwv-244-st-matthew-passion : see https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-translations-1/bwv-244-st-matthew-passion : libetto ‣ 1959, Karl Richter : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-matthaus-passion - soloists, Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Münchner Chorknaben ‣ 1962, Otto Klemperer : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-st-matthew-passion-bwv-244-remastered - soloists, Hampstead Parish Church Boys’ Choir, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra ‣ 1970, Nikolaus Harnoncourt : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-js-st-matthew-passion-1970 - soloists, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Regensburger Domspatzen, Wiener Sängerknaben, Concentus Musicus Wien / period ‣ 1984 or 1985, Philippe Herreweghe : see https://open.spotify.com/album/54m4VjcDvAnoKbpPEdwdxU : see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ypxXcfELA \ : see https://music.apple.com/ca/album/j-s-bach-st-matthew-passion-bwv-244-matth%C3%A4us-passion/252587353 \\ subscription only : cf. https://app.idagio.com/albums/j-s-bach-matthaus-passion-bwv-244-3A865B80-AAE3-4076-8987-A28C92281338 : this is his later recording, the original not being found on Idagio (2025-7) - soloists, Ensemble Vocale de La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Chœur d’Enfants ‘Il dulci jubilo’, La Chapelle Royale Orchestra / period ‣ 1989, John Eliot Gardiner : see https://app.idagio.com/albums/bach-j-s-st-matthew-passion-bwv-244 - soloists, Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir, English Baroque Soloists / period