Corelli, Arcangelo. 1653-1713. Italian violinist and composer. Early developer of concerto 1712.

Corinthian Wars. 395-387BC. Athens and allies overcome Spartan domination.

Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.

Couperin. 17-18C French family of Baroque composers.

Couperin, François. 1668-1733. French Baroque keyboard composer. Concerts Royeaux, Leçons de Ténebres 1714.

Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.

Coward, Noel. 1899-1973. English playwright. Comedies of manners. Private Lives 1930.

Cowell, Henry. 1887-1965. US avant-garde composer. Tone Clusters.

Crofter. Scottish tenant farmer with right of common pasture.

Cromwell, Oliver. 1599-1658. Led revolution in England, 1649. Lord Protector of the Realm, 1653-. Commonwealth Head of Government, 1649-. Signed Charles I death warrant.

Cuba. Ciboney, Arawak. 1492 Columbus discovers. 1511 Spanish colony. 1517 Slaves brought. 1898 US. Spanish-American War. 1902 Republic. 1957-9 Castro Revolution, Communist dictatorship.

Cuvier, Georges. 1769-1832. French creator of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.

De Mille, Cecil B. 1881-1959. US. First US Feature film. Squaw Man 1913. Ten Commandments 1923, 1956. Epics.

Debussy, Claude. 1862-1918. French Impressionist composer. System of harmonic images. Nocturnes. La Mer 1905.

Decalogue. Ten Commandments.

Delalande, Michel-Richard. 1657-1726. French ecclesiastic composer.

Delescluze, Charles. 1809-71. French journalist. Led 1871 Commune.

Delibes, Leo. 1836-91. French ballet composer: Coppélia 1870.

Delius, Frederick. 1862-1934. English/French Impressionist opera composer. Tone poems.

Democratic Centralists. 1919-27. Russian Communists opposed to authoritarianism and bureaucracy.

Deng Xiaoping. 1902-97. Chinese Communist leader 1973~. Purged by Mao, rehabilitated. Tiananmen.

Deogaon, Treaty. 1803. Marathans cedes land, power to British East India Co.

Deposition Bull. 1535 Henry VIII excommunicated. 1570 Elizabeth I excommunicated.

DesPrés, Josquin. c1440-c1521. Franco-Flemish contrapuntal composer. Motets, chansons.

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