Unit I - Ancient World (Prehistory
to 500 BC)
Neolithic Era: Anon./Traditional Bulgarian -
Polegnala e Todora [2:53]
Monk, Meredith (1942 - ) - Dolmen Music
(excerpt) [6:35]
Egyptian New Kingdom:
Glass, Philip (1937 - ) - Funeral March for
Amenhotep III from Akhenaten
[8:59]
Unit II - Classical World (500 BC - 500 AD)
Classical Greece:
Satie, Erik (1866 - 1925) -
Gymnopaedie #1 [3:37]
Hellenistic Greece:
Hovannes, Alan - Mystic Flute [1:27]
Roman Repiblic:
Respighi, Ottorino (1879 - 1936) - Via Appia from
The Pines of Rome
[4:20]
Roman Empire:
Respighi, Ottorino (1879 - 1936) - Circuses from
Roman Festivals [4:34]
Johnson, Scott - It Raged from How It
Happens - The Voice of I.F.
Stone, performed by the Kronos Quartet, recorded 1995 [8:03]
Unit III - Asia to 1500 (476 AD - 1492 AD)
Ancient India (Early Hinduism)
Holst, Gustav - Choral Hymns
from the Rig Veda: Hymn to the Dawn and Hymn of the
Traveller [X:XX] and [X:XX]
Rise of Islam:
Fanshawe, David - Kyrie from African Sanctus
[2:37]
Mongol (Yuan) Era:
McKennit, Lorena (1953 - ) - Marco Polo [5:10]
Unit IVa - Medieval World (476 AD - 1492 AD)
Byzantine Empire:
Kennedy & Simon - Istanbul, Not
Constantinople, performed by They Might
Be Giants [2:27]
Johnson, Scott - It Raged from How It
Happens - The Voice of I.F.
Stone, performed by the Kronos Quartet, recorded 1995 [8:03]
Early Medieval (Dark Ages):
Anon. - Alleluia, beatus vir qui
suffert, performed by the Monks of Santo
Domingo de Silos, Spain [3:10]
High Medieval:
Bingen, Hildegard of (1098 - 1179) -
O Splendidissima Gemma [5:05]
Anon. - Sumer is Icumen in [1:52]
Late Medieval/Early Renaissance:
Orff, Carl (1895 - 1982) - Carmina Burana (excerpts)
Veni, Veni, Venias
[0:53]
In trutina [2:05]
Tempus est Iocundum
[2:23]
Dulcissime [0:30]
Blanziflor et Helena [1:41]
O, Fortuna Imperatix Mundi
[2:47]
de Machaut, Guillaume - Je Vivroie
Liement [2:23]
de Machaut, Guillaume - Biauté Qui
Toutes Autres Pčre [4:51]
Unit IVb - Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Exploration (1400 AD - 1600 AD)
Reformation:
Luther, Martin (1483 - 1546) - Ein feste
Burg ist unser Gott, arranged by
Johann Krüger [5:38]
Counter-Reformation:
de Victoria, Luis (1548 - 1611) - O
Magnum Mysterium [3:10]
Elizabethan Renaissance:
Brade, William (1560 - 1630) - Paduana [2:40]
Anon. -
"Unto the Prophet Jonas I Read" and "Watkin's Ale", performed by the Baltimore Consort, recorded 1995 [8:03]
Unit Va - The Baroque (1600 AD - 1750
AD)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) - Contrapunctus #1
and #9 from The Art of the Fugue
BWV 1080-1/9 performed by Zoltan Kocsis [2:28/2:30]
Handel, George Frederick (1685 - 1759)
- "For Unto Us a Child is Born" and "There were Shepherds,
Abiding in their Fields" from The Messiah
performed by Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [3:40]
Pachelbel, Johann (1653 - 1706) - Canon in D
performed by London Baroque [3:40]
Unit Vb - The Enlightenment/The Age of Reason (1750 AD - 1800 AD)
Unit VI - The 19th Century (1800 AD - 1914 AD)
Unit VII - The World At War (1914AD - 1945 AD)
Unit VII - In The Shadow of the Bomb (1945 AD -
present)
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