Adamcyk - Final Exam – Music Hum
Known Listening Component
*You will be asked to know the complete title and composer’s name for each of the following
pieces, as well as the genre and artistic period it is associated with (as written on the following
list). The recordings are available on the class website (click on the Materials tab):
http://music.columbia.edu/~davidadamcyk/MusicHum/
1.) Title: Nocturne #11 in G minor, Op.37 No.1
Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Period & genre: Romantic piano music
2.) Title: Erlkönig
Composer: Franz Schubert
Period & genre: Romantic lied
3.) Title: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14, Movement 4: March to the Scaffolds
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Period & genre: Romantic program symphony
4.) Title: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre, Act III
Composer: Richard Wagner
Period & genre: Late Romantic music drama (opera)
5.) Title: Voiles, from Preludes, Book 1
Composer: Claude Debussy
Period & genre: Impressionistic (early 20c) Piano Music
6.) Title: La Valse
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Period & genre: Impressionistic (early 20c) Waltz
7.) Title: Dance of the Adolescents, from The Rite of Spring
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Period & genre: Early 20c ballet
8.) Title: Maple Leaf Rag
Composer: Scott Joplin
Period & genre: Early 20c Ragtime (Piano Music)
9.) Title: Der Mondfleck, No.18 from Pierrot Lunaire
Composer: Arnold Schoenberg
Period & genre: Early 20c, Second Viennese School/Expressionist song cycle
10.) Title: Libera me - Dies Irae, from the Messa da Requiem,
Composer: Giussepe Verdi
Period & genre: Late 19th Sacred Music
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11.) Title: Manteca
Composer: Dizzie Gillespie and Chano Pozo
Period & genre: Mid 20c Afro-Cuban Jazz
12.) Title: Symphony, Op. 21
Composer: Anton Webern
Period & genre: Early/Mid 20c Twelve Tone Orchestral Music
13.) Title: Gesang Der Jünglinge (excerpt)
Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Period & genre: Mid 20c Electronic Music
14.) Title: Lux aeterna
Composer: Gyorgy Ligeti
Period & genre: Mid 20c Choral Music
15.) Title: Sonata V, from Sonatas and Interludes
Composer: John Cage
Period & genre: Mid 20c Prepared Piano Music
16.) Title: Budo
Composer: Miles Davies
Period & genre: Mid 20c Hard Bop
17.) Title: Music for 18 Musicians
Composer: Steve Reich
Period & genre: Post-1945 Minimalist Music for large chamber ensemble
18.) Title: Vortex Temporum, movement 1
Composer: Gérard Grisey
Period & genre: Post-1945 Spectral Music for chamber ensemble
19.) Title: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Period & genre: Late 20c Sacred Chamber Music