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Chapter 2: Music of the Middle Ages
Chapter 2: Music of the Middle Ages
- 1) Hildegard of Bingen: Ave Generosa
- 2) Agnus Dei from the Notre Dame Mass (c. 1364 CE) by Guillaume de Machaut
- 3) Song of Mary, No. 181: "The Virgin will aid those who most love her"
- 4) "Lady, to you without reserve I give my heart, thought and desire, by Guillaume de Machaut
Chapter 3: Music of the Renaissance
Chapter 3: Music of the Renaissance
- 5) Ave Maria…Virgo Serena, by Josquin des Prez
- 6) Kyrie from "Missa Papae Marcelli" (Pope Marcellus Mass), by Giovanni Pieruigi da Palestrina
- 7) A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," by Martin Luther
- 8) "Sing Joyfully Unto God," by William Byrd
- 9) "As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending," by Thomas Weelkes
- 10) "Kemp's Jig," Anonymous dance
Chapter 4: Music of the Baroque Period
Chapter 4: Music of the Baroque Period
- 11) "Tu Se Morta" ("You are dead") from Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi
- 12) Sonata pian e forte for 8 parts, C. 176 from Sacrae Symphoniae, by Giovanni Gabrielli
- 13) The first movement of Spring from The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi
- 14) "Comfort Ye" and "Ev'ry Valley" from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel
- 15) "Hallelujah" from Messiah, by George Frideric Handel
- 16) Bourée from Water Music, by George Frideric Handel
- 17) Minuet from Water Music, by George Frideric Handel
- 18) Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is Our God), from Bach Cantata 80 (BWV 80), by Johann Sebastian Bach
- 19) Organ Fugue in G Minor (BWR 578), by Johann Sebastian Bach
Chapter 5: Music of the Classical Period
Chapter 5: Music of the Classical Period
- 20) String Quartet in D major, Op. 20, no. 4 (I: Allegro di molto), by Franz Josef Haydn
- 21) String Quartet in D major, op. 20, no. 4 (III. Allegretto alla zingarese), by Haydn
- 22) Symphony No. 94 in G major, "Surprise" (II. Andante), by Haydn
- 23) Symphony No. 94 in G major, "Surprise" (IV. Finale: Allegro Molto), by Haydn
- 24) Deh, vieni alla finestra,Testo (Aria) from Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 25) Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466, First Movement 1. Allegro, by Mozart
- 26) Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 — 1st Movement, Allegro Vivace, by Mozart
- 27) Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Chapter 6: Nineteenth-Century Music and Romanticism
Chapter 6: Nineteenth-Century Music and Romanticism
- 28) Erlkönig, by Franz Schubert
- 29) Excerpts from Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- 30) "Chiarina" from Carnaval, by Robert Schumann
- 31) Ballade in D minor, Op. 6, no. 4, by Clara Wieck Schumann
- 32) Mazurka in F minor, Op. 7, no. 1, by Fryderyck Chopin
- 33) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, by Franz Liszt
- 34) Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14: 1st movement: Reveries – Passions, by Hector Berlioz
- 35) Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso, by Johannes Brahms
- 36) The Moldau (Vlatava) by Bedřich Smetana
- 37) From the New World, Symphony 9, movement 2 Largo, by Antonín Dvořák
- 38) 1812 Overture, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 39) The Star and Stripes Forever, by John Phillip Sousa
- 40) "Follie" and "Sempre libera" from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
- 41) The Valkyries, Final scene: Wotan's Farewell, by Richard Wagner
Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century and beyond
Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century and beyond
- 42) Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2: "Lever du jour," by Maurice Ravel
- 43) A Survivor from Warsaw, by Arnold Schoenberg
- 44) Wozzeck, Act III Scene 2, by Alban Berg
- 45) Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, by Igor Stravinsky
- 46) Concerto for Orchestra – Movement Five "Finale," by Béla Bartók
- 47) Music for 18 Musicians. by Steve Reich
- 48) Fanfare for the Common Man, by Aaron Copland
- 49) Star Wars Main Theme, by John Williams
- 50) The Legend of Zelda (Overworld Theme), by Koji Kondo 1986 and 2011 arrangement
Chapter 8: Popular Music in the United States
Chapter 8: Popular Music in the United States
- 51) Louis Armstrong: "West End Blues," by Joe "King" Oliver
- 52) "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing," by Duke Ellington
- 53) "Heartbreak Hotel," by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton
- 54) "Can I Kick It," by A Tribe Called Quest (Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg, Jarobi White)
- 55) "America" from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein