LISTENING EXCERPTS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE FINAL

Middle Ages/Renaissance

1. Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We Have Seen His Star)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRzuz5QFH8w

2. O Succesores

Hildegard of Bingen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCmHuz5oTk

3. Ionian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzaCy8R5qE

Dorian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgoczbY99OA

Phrygian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSUQHkRsMWk

Lydian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOdYyx1oKI

Mixolydian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUQBC3J-7Y

Aeolian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-UzXIQ5vw

Locrian -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILlvBtPcA1Y

4. Music of the Troubadors – Cantaben els osells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJlLbGMJNE

5. Ecco la Primavera (“Spring has Come”)

By Francesco Landini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jITM5VzTEPU

Baroque

1. Brandenberg Concerto No. 2 in F major, First movement

by Johann Sebastian Bach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-l5sF8Vp8

2. Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas (1689) -- (“When I am Laid in Earth”)

Henry Purcell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlUMWUJ-1w

3. Trio Sonata in A Minor, Op.3 No. 10 (1689)

by Arcangelo Corelli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHwNja0qX0

Classical

1. Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 284, 1st movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Mozart%27s+piano+Sonata+in+d+major+k.284&qs=ds&

form=QBVR#view=detail&mid=F0760734109F2267F30FF0760734109F2267F30F

2. Symphony No. 94 in G Major, 1791, 2nd movement (Surprise Symphony)

Franz Joseph Haydn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCa1gdbVZg

3. Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major (1796), 3rd movement

Joseph Haydn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZYoVw7moc

4. Symphony #5, all movements

Ludwig Van Beethoven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POVjeuef0RY

Romantic

1. “Tristan and Isolde”

Richard Wagner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWg_cZkDho

2. “Nocturne in Eb”

Frederic Chopin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllmVIJnqwg

3. “Piano Concerto #1”

Peter Tchaikovsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItSJ_woWnmk

4. Liebst du um Schonbeit, (If you love for beauty; 1841)

Clara Wieck Schumann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarZ4_pf6y4

5. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64 (1844), 1st movement

Felix Mendelssohn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_aRIXXXpE

6. “Peter and the Wolf”

Sergei Prokofiev

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot7m9i70JDg

7. La donna e mobile (Woman is fickle), Aria from Rigoletto (1851)

Giuseppe Verdi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmTJ0bUG8mo

20th Century

1. Appalachian Spring, Section 7

Aaron Copland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5EkDe0VHOs

2. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Claude Debussy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7b1FkZYarU

3. The Rite of Spring, (1913),

Igor Stravinsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tkp6eeh40

4. Mondestrunken (Moondrunk) from Pierrot lunaire

Arnold Schoenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3yKm6t6LyI

5. Poeme electronique (Electronic Poem) 1958

Edgard Varese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqxMgC7C3po