2,000 Years of Music

A tribute to prominent musicologist and pioneering ethnomusicologist Dr. Curt Sachs, this compilation of Western classical music tours Greek, Jewish and Gregorian chant traditions; early polyphony of the 2nd century; religious polyphony of the 16th century; German dances and opera; songs of the troubadours; early music from the Netherlands; madrigals and motets.

Track Listing

101	Greek Music	Prof. Dr. H. J. Moser	02:33
102	Jewish Music	Prof. Dr. H. J. Moser	02:59
103	Gregorian Chant	Choir of the Gregorian Society of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Prof. H. Halbig	02:26
104	Early Polyphonic Music	Choir of the Gregorian Society of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Prof. H. Halbig	02:42
105	The Troubadours	Prof. Dr. H. J. Moser	02:02
106	The Minnesingers	Prof. Dr. H. J. Moser	02:45
201	Early Netherland Music - About 1450	Choir of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Pius Kalt	02:39
202	Early Netherland Music - About 1500	Choir of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Pius Kalt	01:50
203	German Choral Music - About 1500	Choir of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Pius Kalt	02:48
204	German Choral Music of the Reformation	Choir of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Pius Kalt	02:34
205	Zenith of Religious Polyphony in the 16th Century (1)	Berlin State and Cathedral Choir, dir. Prof. H. Rüdel	02:48
206	Zenith of Religious Polyphony in the 16th Century (2)	Berlin State and Cathedral Choir, dir. Prof. H. Rüdel	02:36
301	The Madrigal (Italy)	Thiel Madrigal Choir, dir. Prof. Dr. Carl Thiel	02:55
302	The Madrigal (Germany)	Thiel Madrigal Choir, dir. Prof. Dr. Carl Thiel	03:09
303	Harpsichord Music - About 1600	Prof. Erwin Bodky, Andreas Ruckers	02:56
304	German Dances - About 1600	Munich String Quartet	02:43
305	Italian Church Music - Early Baroque	Choir of the Berlin State Academy of Church and School Music, dir. Pius Kalt	02:26
306	Opera	Maria Peschken, Dr. Curt Sachs, Paul Hermann	03:12
401	The German Motet (1)	Berlin State and Cathedral Choirs	02:44
402	The German Motet (2)	Berlin State and Cathedral Choirs	02:18
403	Chamber Music (About 1700) (1)	Martha Glissmar, Prof. Erwin Bodky, Andreas Ruckers	02:58
404	Chamber Music (About 1700) (2)	Martha Glissmar, Prof. Erwin Bodky, Paul Hermann, Georg Blumensaat	02:29
405	Rococo	Prof. Erwin Bodky	02:52
406	Sentiment	Prof. Erwin Bodky	02:45