Monarchs | Musical & World Events |
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Edward the Confessor | 1042 | Early polyphony: Winchester tropers (1050) |
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Harold
William the Conqueror
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William II | 1087 | |
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Henry I | 1100 | |
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Henry II | 1154 | Death of Thomas à Becket 1170 |
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Richard I | 1189 | |
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John I | 1199 | |
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Henry lll | 1216 | Earliest motet in English Worldes blis (1260) |
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Edward l | 1272 |  |
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Edward ll | 1307 | |
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Edward lll | 1327 | 100 Years' War 1340 |
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Richard Coeur de Lion | 1377 | |
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Henry IV | 1399 | |
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Henry V | 1413 | Agincourt Song
Sumer is icumen in (1415) |
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Henry VI | 1422 | King's College Cambridge founded 1441 John Dunstable c1390-1453 |
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Edward IV | 1461 | |
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Edward V
Richard III | 1483 | William Cornysh 1468-1523 |
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Henry VII | 1485 | Wynken de Worde 1st English music printed
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Henry VIII | 1509 | Greensleeves
The Reformation
John Tavener c1490-1545 Christopher Tye c1505-1572 Thomas Tallis c1505-1585 |
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Edward VI | 1547 | |
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Lady Jane Grey
Mary I | 1553 | |
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Elizabeth I | 1558 | William Byrd 1543-1623 John Dowland 1563-1626 Fitzwilliam Virginal Book 1610 |
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James I | 1603 | Death of Shakespeare 1616 Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625 |
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Charles I | 1625 | Nicholas Lanier - Master of the King's Musik 1588-1666 Civil War 1642 Commonwealth 1649 |
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Charles II | 1660 | Restoration Chapel Royal Re-established Louis Grabu - Master of the King's Musik fl. 1665-c1693 Nicholas Staggins d.1705 Henry Purcell 1659-1695 |
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James II | 1685 | |
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William and Mary | 1689 | Maurice Greene 1696–1755 |
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George I | 1714 | |
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George II | 1727 | John Gay's Beggars Opera 1728 William Boyce 1711-1779 GF Handel 1685-1759 Royal Society of Musicians est 1738 Handel's Messiah 1741 Thomas Arne 1710-1778 John Stanley 1712-1786 |
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George III | 1760 | William Shield 1748-1829 Charles Wesley 1757-1834 Samuel Wesley 1766-1837 Royal Philharmonic Soc. est 1813 |
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George IV | 1820 | Royal Academy of Music est 1823 |
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William IV | 1830 | English Opera House rebuilt 1834 Francois Cramer 1772-1848 |
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Victoria | 1837 | Crystal Palace Concerts est 1852 Sir William Cusins 1833-1892 Royal Albert Hall opened 1871 Royal College of Music est 1883 Grove's Dictionary 1st pub 1889 Sir Walter Parratt 1841-1924 Hubert Parry 1848-1918 Ethel Smyth 1858-1944 Frederick Delius 1862-1934 Promenade Concerts est 1895 Folk Song Society est 1898 Edward Elgar 1857-1934 Enigma Variations 1st perf 1899 Dream of Gerontius 1st perf 1900 |
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Edward VII | 1905 | |
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George V | 1910 | Sir Michael Tippett 1905-1998 Benjamin Britten 1913-1976 Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 Gustav Holst 1872-1958 VW A London Symphony 1st perf World War I 1972-1958 BBC takes over the Proms 1927 Sir William Walton 1902-1983 Belshazzar's Feast Ist perf 1931 Sir Walford Davies 1869-1941 Glyndebourne Opera est 1934 |
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Edward VIII
George VI | 1936 | World War II 1939-1945 Sir Arnold Bax 1883-1953 A Child of Our Time 1st perf 1944 Peter Grimes 1st perf 1945 Royal Festival Hall opened 1951 |
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Elizabeth II | 1952 | Sir Arthur Bliss 1991-1975 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies b.1934 Harrison Birtwistle 1934 Alexander Goehr 1951 Barbican Hall opened 1982 |
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