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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Stacks of sheet music. Classical music composer composition. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
A Music Lesson
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Petr Il'ich Chaikovskii), Russian composer.
A Study of Composers
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, circa 1900. Giacomo Puccini, opera Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly).
High Art in Song
Lady musician playing a sitar, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, ca. 1800; Kota, Rajastan, India.
Music in the World (Part Two) Quiz
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Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (Venosa, 1566-Gesualdo, 1613), Italian composer. Painting by Francesco Mancini. Naples , Museo Storico Musicale
Carlo Gesualdo: Murder, Witchcraft, Choral Music
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New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
What is Holy Week?
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Francesca Caccini
Italian composer and singer
Barbara Strozzi
Italian singer and composer
Gesualdo, Carlo
Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza
Italian composer and lutenist
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer
Thomas Morley
British composer
Philippe de Monte
Dutch composer
Lasso, engraving by James Caldwall
Orlando di Lasso
Flemish composer
Giovanni Gabrieli
Italian composer
Francis Pilkington
British composer
Thomas Weelkes
English composer
John Wilbye
English composer
Jacques Arcadelt
French composer
Orlando Gibbons
English composer
Francesco Landini
Italian composer
Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer
Giaches de Wert
Flemish composer
Hans Leo Hassler
German composer

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Stacks of sheet music. Classical music composer composition. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
A Music Lesson
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Petr Il'ich Chaikovskii), Russian composer.
A Study of Composers
Lady musician playing a sitar, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, ca. 1800; Kota, Rajastan, India.
Music in the World (Part Two) Quiz
Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, circa 1900. Giacomo Puccini, opera Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly).
High Art in Song