Music 1 Listening Examples

Part I

• Stravinsky: Firebird Suite finale
• Ellington: C-Jam Blues
• Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
• Arlen/Harburg, performed by Judy Garland: Over the Rainbow
• Bizet: Farandole from L'Arlesienne
• Chopin: Prelude in E minor
• Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite--Dance of the Reed Pipes
• Bach: Lute Suite in E minor: Bouree

Part II

• Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam
• Hildegard: O Successores
• Machaut: uis qu'en oubli
• Machaut: Notre Dame Mass -- Agnus Dei
• Josquin: Motet -- Ave Maria
• Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass -- Kyrie
• Weelks: As Vesta Was Descending
• John Dowland: Flow My Tears
• Caroubel: Passamezzo and Galliard

Part III

• JS Bach: The "Little" Organ Fugue
• JS Bach: Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, 1st movement
• JS Bach: Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, 2nd movement
• JS Bach: Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, 3rd movement
• Monteverdi: Tu Se' Morta
• Purcell: Dido's Lament
• Corelli: Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 10-
  • 1st movement
  • 2nd movement
  • 3rd movement
  • 4th movement
• Vivaldi: Four Seasons Spring, Movement 1
• Vivaldi: Four Seasons Spring, Movement 2
• Vivaldi: Four Seasons Spring, Movement 3
• JS Bach: Cantata 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme
• First Movement: Chorus and Orchestra
• Fourth Movement: Tenor Chorale
• Last Movment: Gloria
• Handel: Messiah
• Ev'ry Valley Shall be Exalted
• Hallelujah Chorus

Supplemental listening

• JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor--Prelude
• JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor--Fugue

Part IV

• Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor: Movement 1
• Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise): Second Movement
• Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Movement 3 (minuet and trio)
• Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4: Fourth Movement
• Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major: Third Movement (rondo)
• Mozart: Don Diovanni, Opening Scene
• Mozart: Piano Concerto in A major, First Movement
• Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor:
  • First Movement
  • Second Movement
  • Third Movement
  • Fourth Movement

Supplemental listening

• Mozart Symphony #40 in G minor
• Movement 2
• Movement 3
• Movement 4
• Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise): First Movement
• Mozart: Don Giovanni: "Catalog" aria
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 15: First Movement
• Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor: Second Movement
• Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor: Third Movement

Part V

• Franz Schubert: Die Erlkonig
• Robert Schumann: Carnaval
  • Chiarina
  • Chopin
  • Estrella
  • Reconnaisance
• Clara Schumann: Romance in E Flat Minor, Op. 11, No. 1 (YouTube)
• Chopin: Etude in C Minor
• Frederick Chopin: Nocturne in E Flat Major
• Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor
• Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1st mvt.
• Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • IV: March to the Scaffold
  • V: Dream of a Witch's Sabbath
• Bedrich Smetana: The Mouldau
• Antonin Dvorak: From the New World, 1st mv.
• Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, 3rd mv.
• Puccini: La Boheme "No Sono in vena"
• Wagner: Die Walkuie: Act I, conclusion
• Supplemental Listening
• Schubert: Die Forelle
• Modest Mussorsy: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev

Part VI

• Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
• Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
  • Sacrificial Dance
  • Omens of Spring
• Schoenberg:
  • Pierrote Lunaire: "Moonstruck Pierrot"
  • A Survivor from Warsaw
• Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra
• Ives: Three Places in New England
• Still: Aftro American Symphony, 3rd Movement
• Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
  • Introduction
  • Game of Pairs
• Amy Beech: The Year's at the Spring
• Cage: Sonatas and Interludes
• Ginastera: Estancia Suite--Malambo (YouTube video)