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Mandatory Music Selection
To explore the music selections included in the course listening guides and thoroughly prepare for the graded listening tests that are assignments in this online music course, students MUST have a subscription to Spotify, Amazon Music, Napster, Apple Music, or another subscription music service. All of the recordings that accompany the listening guides can be located on these various subscription music services.
Interactive Music Guides: The Listening Guide activities in our lectures feature interactive commentaries that can be activated by clicking on the Listen on Spotify icon (see below for the icon and supported browsers).
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The following music selections are used in this course:
Instrument Identification
| Selection Title | Composer |
|---|---|
| The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra | Benjamin Britten |
Identification Test #1: Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque
| Selection Title | Composer |
|---|---|
| Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam (We Have Seen His Star) | Anonymous |
| O successores (You Successors of the Mightiest Lion) | Hildegard of Bingen |
| Alleluia Dies Sanctificatus | Léonin |
| Agnus Dei I from Messe de Notre Dame | Guillaume de Machaut |
| Ave Maria, gratia plena | Josquin des Prez |
| As Vesta Was Descending | Thomas Weelkes |
| Song of the Birds (Chant des oiseaux) | Clément Janequin |
| L’Orfeo | Claudio Monteverdi |
| Hallelujah, Chorus No. 39 from Messiah | George Frideric Handel |
| There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field, Recitative No. 14 from Messiah | George Frideric Handel |
| The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) First Movement, “Spring,” Allegro | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Fugue in G Minor (“The Little”) | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Sonata in C-Sharp Minor K. 247 | Domenico Scarlatti |
Identification Test #2: Classical/Viennese and Romantic
| Selection Title | Composer |
|---|---|
| Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major Third Movement, Allegro | Joseph Haydn |
| Symphony No. 94 in G Major (“Surprise”) First Movement | Joseph Haydn |
| String Quartet in E-Flat, No. 2 (“Joke”) Op. 33, Movement IV, Finale: Presto | Joseph Haydn |
| Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 First Movement | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 First Movement, Allegro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| String Quartet in C Minor, No. 4 Op. 18, Fourth Movement | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 Movement I, Allegro con brio | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Don Giovanni Act I: Introduction, opening scene | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| Étude in C Minor (“Revolutionary Étude”) Op. 10, No. 12 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Erlkönig | Franz Schubert |
| The Moldau from Má Vlast | Bedřich Smetana |
| Die Walküre | Richard Wagner |
| Les Préludes | Franz Liszt |
| Symphony No. 6 (“Tragic”) Excerpt, Fourth Movement | Gustav Mahler |
| La Bohème | Giacomo Puccini |
Identification Test #3: The Twentieth Century and New Music
| Selection Title | Composer |
|---|---|
| Wozzeck Excerpt from Act III | Alban Berg |
| Prélude á l’aprés-midi d’un Faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) | Claude Debussy |
| Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) Excerpt from Part I, The Adoration of the Earth | Igor Stravinsky |
| Concerto for Orchestra Second Movement: Game of Pairs, Allegretto scherzando | Béla Bartók |
| String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17, Movement II, allegro molto capriccioso | Béla Bartók |
| Der Mondfleck (Moonfleck) from Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot) | Arnold Schoenberg |
| A Survivor from Warsaw | Arnold Schoenberg |
| No. IV, Fliessend, äusserst zart from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 | Anton Webern |
| Ritual Melodies | Jonathan Harvey |
| Sextet | Steve Reich |
| General William Booth Enters Into Heaven | Charles Ives |
| Pavanne based on a theme by Gabriel Fauré, arranged by Claus Ogerman, improvisations | Bill Evans |
| Street Stuff | Darol Anger |
| Concerto Grosso 1985 Subtitle: “to Handel’s Sonata in D for violin and continuo, First movement” | Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
| Appalachian Spring theme and variation on Simple Gifts | Aaron Copland |