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History: |
1594: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. |
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1600: East India Company established |
1603: Champlain exploration of St. Lawrence |
1607: Jamestown, Virginia established |
1611: King James Bible |
1620: Bacon, Novum Organum
1620: Pilgrims in Massachusetts. |
1627: Bacon, The New Atlantis |
1630: Puritans in Massachusetts |
1637: Descartes, Le Discours de la Méthode |
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1648: Peace of Westphalia |
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1604: Shakespeare, Othello. |
1609: Kepler, Astronomia Nova. |
Thirty-Years War. |
1632: Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two World Systems |
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1638: Galileo, Two New Sciences |
(Thirty-Years War & Dutch War, end 1648) |
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1618–1648 |
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1568–1648: Dutch Wars of Independence. |
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Music Events: |
1594: Bottrigari, Il Desiderio. |
1597/98: Peri, Dafne |
1600: Peri, Euridice |
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1610: Cima, Concerti ecclesiastici |
1615: d'India, Le musiche, I |
1618: d'India, Le musiche, III |
1621: d'India, Le musiche, IV |
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1636: Mersenne, Harmonie universelle. |
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1641: Fontana, Sonate |
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1592: Ludovico Zacconi, Prattica di musica, Part I. |
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1601: Luzzaschi, Madrigali |
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1610: R. Dowland, A Musicall Banqvet &
Varietie of Lvte-Lessons |
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| 1623: d'India, Le musiche, V |
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1640: The Bay Psalm Book. |
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1593: Girolamo Diruta, Il Transilvano, Part I. |
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1609: Girolamo Diruta, Il Transilvano, Part II. |
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1522: Ludovico Zacconi, Prattica di musica, Part II. | | | | | |
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ca. 1525–1594 Palestrina |
Palestrina d. 1594 |
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1528-1599 Francisco Guerrero |
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ca. 1529-1601 Costanzo Porta |
Porta d. 1601 | | | |
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1530-1600 Claude Le Jeune |
Le Jeune d. 1600 | | | |
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ca. 1530/32–1594 Lassus |
Lassus d. 1594 |
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1533-1604 Claudio Merulo |
C. Merulo d. 1604 |
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1535-1596 Giaches de Wert |
Wert d. 1596 |
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1539/40-1623 William Byrd |
Byrd d. 1623 |
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ca. 1545-1618 Giulio Caccini |
Caccini d. 1618 |
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1548-1611 Tomas Luis de Victoria |
Victoria d. 1611 |
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ca. 1550-1602 Emilio de' Cavalieri |
Cavalieri d. 1602 |
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1550-1605 Orazio Vecchi |
O. Vecchi d. 1605 |
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ca. 1554/57-1612 Giovanni Gabrieli |
G. Gabrieli d. 1612 |
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1557/58-1603 Thomas Morley |
Morley d. 1603 |
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1560-1613 Don Carlo Gesauldo |
Gesauldo d. 1613 |
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1562-1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck |
Sweelinck d. 1621 |
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1562-1628 John Bull |
Bull d. 1628 |
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1563-1626 John Dowland |
Dowland d. 1626 |
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1567-1643 Claudio Monteverdi |
Monteverdi d. 1643 |
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1568-1634 Adiano Banchieri |
Banchieri d. 1634 |
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1570-ca. 1630 Salamone Rossi |
S. Rossi d. ca. 1630 |
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ca. 1571-1621 Michael Praetorius |
Praetorius d. 1621 |
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1574-1638 John Wilbye |
Wilbye d. 1638 |
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ca. 1575-1628 Alfonso Ferrabosco (ii) |
Ferrabosco d. 1628 |
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1576-1623 Thomas Weelkes |
Weelkes d. 1623 |
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1583-1625 Orlando Gibbons |
O. Gibbons d. 1625 |
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1583-1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi |
Frescobaldi d. 1643 |
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1585-1672 Heinrich Schütz |
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1586-1630 Johann Schein |
Schein d. 1630 |
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1587-ca. 1640 Francesca Caccini |
F. Caccini d. ca. 1640 |
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1587-1654 Samuel Scheidt |
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1592-1678 John Jenkins |
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ca. 1594-1665 Tarquinio Merula |
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1595-1642 Giovanni Battista Buonamente |
Buonamente d. 1642 |
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ca. 1595-1665 Biagio Marini |
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1596-1662 Henry Lawes |
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1597-1653 Luigi Rossi |
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1602-1645 William Lawes |
W. Lawes d. 1645 |
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1602-1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli |
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1603-1639 Caspar Kittel |
Kittel d. 1639 |
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1605-1674 Giacomo Carissimi | | | |
| [Froberger] |
1616-1667 Johann Froberger |
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| [B. Strozzi] |
1619-after 1663 Barbara Strozzi |
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| [Legrenzi] |
1626-1690 Giovanni Legrenzi |
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| [Cambert] |
ca. 1628-1677 Robert Cambert |
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| [Locke] |
1630-1677 Matthew Locke |
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1632-1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully |
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| [Buxtehude] |
ca. 1637-1707 Dietrich Buxtehude |
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| [G.M. Bononcini] |
1642-1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini |
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1644-1682 Alessandro Stradella |
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1644-1704 Charpentier |
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Early Seventeenth-Century Chronology (1590–1649) 
