Listening List for Music Appreciation

With links to YouTube videos

*Note* The entire list with links can be found here.

Tentative Listening List for MUSI 1306 - Houston Community College

Medieval/Renaissance (450-1600)

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), O Successores (Plainchant)

Josquin Desprez (c.1440-1521), "Ave Maria" (Motet)

Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (1525-1594), Kyrie from Pope Marcellus Mass (Polyphonic Mass)

Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623), "As Vesta Was Descending" (English Madrigal)

Baroque (1600-1750)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) "Tu' Se Morta" ("You Are Dead") from L'Orfeo (Opera)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), "When I Am Laid in Earth" from Dido and Aeneas (Opera)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), La Primavera (Spring) from the Four Seasons - Mvt I, II (Violin Concerto)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Brandenburg Concerto #5 - Mvt I (Concerto Grosso)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Little Fugue in G Minor (Organ Fugue)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D (Dance Suite)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), "Wachet Auf" - Mvt IV (Church Cantata)

George Fredrick Handel (1685-1759), "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah (Oratorio)

Classical (1750-1820)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" - Mvt. II (Symphony)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), "La Ci Darem La Mano" from Don Giovanni (Opera)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Symphony #40 in g minor - Mvt I and IV (Symphony)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Confutatis from Requiem (Mass)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827), Symphony #5 in c minor, Op. 67 - All 4 Movements (Symphony)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 - Mvt I and II (Piano Sonata)

Romantic (1820-1900)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828), The Erlking (Lied/Art Song)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828), "The Trout" Quintet (Piano Quintet **String Quartet w/ Piano**)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856), "Chiarina" from Carnaval (Character Piece - Piano)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in E-flat (Piano)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Symphony Fantastique - Mvt. IV and V (Program Symphony)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), La Donna È Mobile from Rigoletto (Opera)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre (Music Drama/Opera)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F Minor (Piano)

Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy (Symphonic Poem)

Twentieth Century (1900-2000)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Orchestral Work)

Igor Stravinsky (1882+1971), The Rite of Spring/Le Sacre du Printemps (Ballet)

Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 - Mvt. I "Moondrunk" (Song Cycle)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Appalachian Spring - Section 7, Theme and Variations on "Simiple Gifts" (Ballet Suite)