Listening List for MUS111 Final Exam
Most of the pieces listed here are available for listening online via the class listening list at the Naxos
Music Library. A small few are available as mp3 downloads from the course website. Consult the
website for information on how to access these recordings.
Anonymous, “Viderunt Omnes” ("All the ends of the Earth") from Mass for Christmas Day, (c.9th C.)
Hildegard of Bingen, O greenest branch, (c.1150)
Leonin, "Viderunt Omnes", Mass for Christmas Day (c.1180)
Machaut, "Kyrie" from the Mass of Our Lady (c.1360)
Josquin, Ave Maria, (c.1485)
Bach, Chorale: "Was Gott tut", Cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (1714)
Palestrina, “Sanctus”, from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (1590)
Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending (1601)
Monteverdi, Toccata from Orfeo (1607)
Monteverdi, Act II: "Tu se' morta" Act II, Orfeo (1607)
Monteverdi, Act III: "Possente Spirto" Orfeo (1607)
Purcell, "Thy hand, Belinda!" from Dido and Aeneas (1689)
Purcell, "When I was laid in Earth " from Dido and Aeneas (1689)
Corelli, Trio sonata in C major, op. 4, no. 1 (1694)
Vivaldi, Violin concerto in E major, op. 8, no. 1, I (“Spring”) (ca.1717)
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto no. 5, I (ca. 1720)
Bach, Organ Fugue in G minor (ca.1710)
Bach, Cantata: Awake, a voice is calling, I, IV, VII (1731)
Handel, “V’adoro, pupille”, Giulio Cesare, II/ii (1724)
Handel “Rejoice greatly”, Messiah (1741)
Handel, "hallelujah chorus”, Messiah (1741)
[Classical era starts here]
Mozart, A Little Night Music, I, III (1787)
Haydn, Symphony no. 94, ("Surprise"), II - Andante (1791)
Beethoven, "Pathétique" Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13, I (1799)
Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, I, II, III, IV (1808)
Schubert, Erlkönig, (“Erlking”;1815)
R. Schumann, "Widmung" from Myrtles ("Dedication"; 1840)
C. Schumann, "If you love for beauty" (1841)
Chopin, Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op.27, No. 1 (1835)
Liszt, Transcendental Etude No. 8, "Wilde Jagd" ("Wild hunt"; 1851)
Verdi, La Traviata, "Un dì felice" I/iv (1853)
Verdi, La Traviata, "Ah, fors’è lui" I/vi (1853) [Begins 1:05 into NML track "E' strano! e strano!"]
Verdi, La Traviata, "Follie! Follie!" I/vi (1853) [Begins 3:28 into NML track "E' strano! e strano!"]
Verdi, La Traviata, "Sempre libera degg'io" I/vi ("cabaletta"; 1853)
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, III, "Mild und leise" ("Liebestod"; 1865)
Mahler, "I am lost to the world", from Five Rückert Songs (1902)
Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, ("Introduction" and "Augers of Spring"; 1913)
Schoenberg, "Madonna" from Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Varèse, Poème électronique (1958)
Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)