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This book contains a timeline or comparative chronology of composers, musical events, literature, art and architecture and some historical and scientific events from the years 1000 to 1986. This timechart provides an overview of what is happening at the same time in all these fields of human achievement.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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This text was developed for use in a standard college-level "introduction to graduate studies" course in musicology that I taught for thirty-three years at the University of Redlands.
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