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• The most significant of the compositions of this period are the Suites, which because they make up so large a percentage of Clavier literature (using the term to cover the pianoforte and its predecessors), and because they pointed the way to the distinguishing form of the subsequent period, the sonata, are deserving of more extended consideration. —  How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
• The best preserved for our period are the Durham records, described in LAPSLEY'S County Palatine of Durham_, pp. 327-337 (Harvard Historical Studies); some of the most important are printed in Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense_, ed. —  The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
• During this period, moreover, was published all of the music hitherto unprinted which he cared to preserve 7] The only one of his works of equal calibre which does not, strictly speaking, belong to this period is the set of "Woodland Sketches"; these were composed during the last part of his stay in Boston, and were published in the year (1896) of his removal to New York He had bought in 1896 a piece of property near the town of Peterboro, in southern New Hampshire, consisting of a small farmhouse, some out-buildings, fifteen acres of arable land, and about fifty acres of forest. —  Edward MacDowell
• This period is always less than a year. —  The Dollar Hen
• Among the literary products of the period was the great Chaldćan Epic in twelve books, recording the adventures of the hero Gilgames, and embodying the Chaldćan story of the Deluge The supremacy over western Asia passed to Khammurabi, along with sovereignty over Babylonia, and he assumed the title of "King of the land of the Amorites." —  Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations

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