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1979 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.

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March–April

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September–December

Also in 1979

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Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 1979

Bands disbanded

See Musical groups disestablished in 1979

Bands reformed

The Chipmunks

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Biggest hit singles

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The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1979.[24]

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Chronological list of US and UK and Japan number-one hit singles

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US number-one singles and artist
(weeks at No. 1)

UK number-one singles and artist
(weeks at No. 1)

Japanese Oricon number-one singles and artist
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Top 40 Chart hit singles

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Other Chart hit singles

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Notable singles

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Classical music

  • Arno Babadjanian – Third String Quartet
  • Milton Babbitt
    • An Elizabethan Sextette, for six female voices
    • Images, for saxophone and tape
    • Paraphrases, for ten instruments
  • Osvaldas Balakauskas – Symphony No. 2
  • Pascal Bentoiu – Symphony No. 5, Op. 26
  • Luciano BerioScena
  • Harrison Birtwistle... agm ..., for sixteen voices and three instrumental ensembles
  • John Cage
    • Hymns and Variations, for twelve amplified voices
    • Roaratorio for tape
  • George Crumb
    • Apparition for soprano and amplified piano
    • Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano (four hands)
    • Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
  • Mario DavidovskyPennplay for sixteen players
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    • Black Pentecost, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra, Op. 82
    • Kirkwall Shopping Songs, for young voices and instruments, Op. 85
    • Nocturne, for alto flute solo, Op. 84
    • Quiet Memory of Bob Jennings, for violin, viola, and cello, WoO 135
    • Salome, concert suite from the ballet, Op. 80b
    • Solstice of Light, cantata for tenor, SATB chorus, and organ, Op. 83
  • Morton Feldman
    • String Quartet No. 1
    • Violin and Orchestra
  • Hugh FlynnBirds
  • Philip Glass
  • Alexander Goehr
    • Babylon the Great Is Fallen, cantata, Op. 40
    • Chaconne for organ, Op. 34a
    • Das Gesetz der Quadrille, Op. 41
    • Sinfonia, Op. 42
  • Cristóbal Halffter
    • Officium defunctuorum, for orchestra and chorus
    • Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Jacques Hétu – Bassoon Concerto
  • Vagn Holmboe
    • Violin Concerto No. 2
    • Notater for 3 trombones (alto, tenor, baritone) and tuba
    • Konstateringer for choir
    • Guitar Sonata No. 1
    • Guitar Sonata No. 2
    • Accordion Sonata No. 1
    • Bogtrykkemaskinen for violin and piano
  • Miloslav KabelacMetamorphoses II, for piano and orchestra, Op. 58
  • Wojciech Kilar
    • Fanfare for mixed choir and orchestra
    • Hoary Fog (Siwa mgła), for baritone and orchestra
  • Witold LutosławskiNovelette for orchestra
  • William Lloyd WebberMissa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
  • Tomás Marco
    • Aria de la batalla, for organ
    • Tartessos, for four percussionists
  • Richard MealeViridian, for orchestra
  • Paul Moravec
    • Ave Verum Corpus, for SATB chorus
    • Missa Miserere, for SATB chorus and orchestra
    • Pater Noster, for SATB chorus
  • Ștefan NiculescuSincronie for flute, oboe and bassoon
  • Allan Pettersson – Viola Concerto
  • Steve Reich
  • R. Murray Schafer
    • Beauty and the Beast, from Patria 3, for alto with masks and string quartet
    • Felix's Girls, from Patria 3, for SATB quartet or choir
    • Gamelan, from Patria 3, for SATB, SASA, or TBTB solo quartet or choir
    • Hear Me Out from Patria 3, for four speaking voices
    • Music for Wilderness Lake, for twelve trombones and small rural lake
    • Ontario Variations on a theme by Jack Behrens (one variation), for piano, contribution to collective work by Ontario composers
  • Peter Sculthorpe
    • Four Little Pieces, for piano duet
    • Mangrove, for orchestra
    • Requiem, for cello alone
  • Denis SmalleyThe Pulses of Time, electronic music
  • Roger Smalley – String Quartet
  • Michael Tippett – Triple Concerto for violin, viola, and cello
  • Anatol Vieru
    • Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra
    • Iosif si fratii sai, for eleven instruments and tape
  • Malcolm WilliamsonFanfarade, for orchestra
  • Charles Wuorinen
    • Fortune, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
    • Joan's, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
    • The Magic Art, instrumental masque, for chamber orchestra
    • Percussion Duo, for mallet instruments and piano
    • Psalm 39, for baritone and guitar
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Three Songs, for tenor and piano
  • Iannis Xenakis
    • Anémoessa, for SATB chorus of 42 or 84 voices and orchestra
    • Dikhthas, for violin and piano
    • Palimpsest, for cor anglais, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, and string quintet

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