CDs are listed by category:

• Renaissance Music

• The Blues

• Music in History

• World Music - Global History

A. Renaissance Music:

          Gregorian Chant – LORD OF THE FLIES

                   # 1 - CD – 500 Jahre Wiener Sangerknaben

                                      500^th Anniversary Vienna Choir Boys

                                      Song - #5 Kyrie – to hear the sound of choir boys

* Video - showing a small clip of choir boys from the movie

Elizabethan era – ROMEO & JULIET

          # 2 – CD - The Best of the Renaissance - Any selection

          # 3 – CD - Elizabethan music – composers: Dowland, Galliard

          # 4 – CD - Renaissance music – the madrigal – 2 selections

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B. The Blues:

          Dust Bowl Blues - OUT OF THE DUST

                   # 5 – CD - Woody Guthrie: Talking Dust Bowl Blues

                                                          This Land Is Your Land

          Mississippi Blues – ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN

                   # 6 – CD – Blues – Vol. 3 – any selection

                   # 7 – CD – Mississippi Blues – Putumayo World Music

                                        Song 9 – I Got To Make a Change Blues       

The Blues – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

                   * Video – showing the song Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

Working Man Blues – Underground Railroad theme

                   # 8 – CD – Steal Away – Songs of the Underground Railroad

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C. Music In History:

          Civil War Music

                   # 9 – CD - The Civil War – Original Soundtrack Recording

Traditional American songs and instrumental music featured in the film by Ken Burns

                   # 10 & # 11 – CD – Songs of Civil War music

          Vietnam War music

                   # 12 – CD - War songs: Vietnam – 8 selections

          Sept.11^th, 2001 – historical event – music portraying the event

                   # 13 – CD – Bruce Springsteen music from the CD – The Rising

                    Selections – Into The Fire, Empty Sky, Counting On A Miracle

          Black Musicians Through the Ages

# 14 – CD – Black American Music - selections by Scott Joplin, Louis  Armstrong, Aretha Franklin & Michael Jackson

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D. World Music – Global History:

          China, Japan & India

                   # 15 – CD – Music from China Japan & India

                             Selections from these land

                   # 16 – CD – Japanese Voices – Voyager

                   # 17 – CD – Indian Journeys – Voyager

                   # 18 – CD – India – Classical Ragas

          Asia

                    # 19 – CD – Music From the Tea Lands – Putumayo World Music

          Africa

                   # 20 – CD Africa: Colors of the World