JAMB Music · Section 4

Western Music Composers

Section D: History and Literature of Western Music

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Official JAMB Music outline · Section D: History and Literature of Western Music

Contents / notes

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
  • Claudio Monteverdi.
  • Henry Purcell.
  • J. S. Bach.
  • G. F. Handel.
  • W. A. Mozart.
  • Franz Joseph Haydn.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • Franz Schubert.
  • Frédéric Chopin.
  • Igor Stravinsky.
  • Arnold Schoenberg.
  • Zoltán Kodály.
  • Claude Debussy.

Candidate objectives

  • Identify the composers.
  • Assess their contributions.
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