CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Gloria Patri
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval (800-1400)
Genre: Gregorian Chant
Vocab: monophonic- a single-line melody

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Title: Viderunt Omnes
Composer: Perotin (early 13 th century)
Period: Medieval (800-1400)
Genre: Organum
Vocab: polyphonic- two or more melodies occurring simultaneously that harmonize with each other

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Agnus Dei from “Notre Dame Mass”
Composer: Guillaume de Machaut
(1300-1377)
Period: Medieval (800-1400)
Genre: Mass

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Title: Sicut Cervus
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Period: Renaissance (1400-1600)
Genre: Motet
Vocab: motet-a sacred, polyphonic choral composition featuring 3-6 parts
Imitation-a melodic idea is stated in one voice and restated in another

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Title: Si ch’io vorrei morire
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Period: Renaissance (1400-1600)
Genre: Madrigal
Vocab: madrigal-a secular song, usually 4-6 voices and a cappella, that was popular during the Renaissance

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Scene/Tu sei morta from “Orfeo”
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Period: Renaissance (1400-1600)
Genre: Opera
Vocab: aria-an elaborate melody sung solo with instrumental accompaniment, usually from an opera and displaying intense emotion

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Pavane Lachrimae
Composer: John Dowland (1563-
1626)
Period: Renaissance (1400-1600)
Genre: Lute song

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Title: “Spring” from The Four Seasons
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Period: Baroque (1600-1750)
Genre: Concerto
Vocab: concerto-a composition for one or more solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Prelude & Fugue from “The Well-Tempered
Clavier”
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Period: Baroque (1600-1750)
Genre: Prelude and fugue
Vocab: prelude-a short piece based on an expansion of a melody or rhythmic figure fugue-a complex, polyphonic composition featuring multiple musical themes (subjects and answers)

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Title: “Air” from Orchestra Suite #3
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Period: Baroque (1600-1750)
Genre: Orchestral Suite
Vocab: suite-a multimovement work with contrasting dance movements

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Title: Jesu, meine freude (Movements I, II, III)
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Period: Baroque (1685-1750)
Genre: Cantata
Vocab: cantata-a lyric drama, usually sacred, intended to be sung but not acted

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Period: Baroque (1600-1750)
Genre: Toccata and fugue
Vocab: toccata-virtuoso composition in the style of improvisation

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Hallelujah” from Messiah
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Period: Baroque (1600-1750)
Genre: Oratorio
Vocab: oratorio-an extended sacred musical composition for solo, choir, and orchestra, with no action, costumes, or scenery
Homophonic-one melody and accompanying harmony

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Title: “Ombra mai fu” from Serse
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Period: Baroque (1685-1750)
Genre: Recitative and aria
Vocab: recitative-singing in a speech-like manner usually to introduce an aria or further the plot

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #94 Movement 2-Andante
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Symphony
Vocab: symphony-an elaborate orchestra composition usually in three or more movements
Theme and variations-a form in music where a theme is stated and altered in successive statements

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Vollendet ist das grosse Werk” from
Creation
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-
1809)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Oratorio

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #40 in G Minor,
Movement I
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Symphony

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Lacrymosa” from Requiem
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-
1791)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Requiem mass
Vocab: requiem-mass for the dead

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Der Hölle Rache” from The Magic
Flute AKA “Queen of the Night aria”
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Opera aria

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Title: Piano Sonata #14 “Moonlight”, Movement I
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Piano Sonata
Vocab: sonata-an instrumental composition in several movements for solo or small ensemble
Sonata form-exposition-developmentrecapitulation-coda

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Title: Piano Sonata #14 “Moonlight”,
Movement III
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Piano Sonata

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #5, Movement I, Allegro con brio
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Period: Classical (1750-1820)
Genre: Symphony

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #9, Movement 4, Allegro (Ode to Joy)
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Symphony

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Largo al factotum
Composer: Giacchino Rossini (1792-
1868)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera aria

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Erlkönig
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Lied
Vocab: lied-A German art song for voice and piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Ave Maria
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Lied

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Fantasie-impromptu in C# Minor
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Fantasy-impromptu
Vocab: tempo rubato-expressive and rhythmic freedom using slight accelerando and ritardando at the discretion of the soloist or conductor

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Liebestraum #3 in A-flat Major
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Piano composition

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “La donna e mobile” from Rigoletto
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera aria

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Dies irae” from Requiem
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Requiem mass

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Ride of the Valkyries” from Prelude to Act III of Die Walküre from Der Ring des Nibelungen
Composer: Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera prelude
Vocab: leitmotif-a musical idea that is repeated throughout a work to signify people, objects, emotions, or places

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: An der schönen blauen Donau (Blue Danube
Waltz)
Composer: Johann Strauss (1825-1899)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Waltz
Vocab: waltz-dance music in ¾ time, usually with one-chord per measure

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #1, Movement 4
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-
1897)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Symphony

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Habañera“ from Carmen
Composer: Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera aria

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Au fond du temple saint“ from The
Pearl Fishers
Composer: Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera duet

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Piano Concerto #1, Movement 1
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Concerto

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Waltz” from Sleeping Beauty
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Ballet

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “In paradisum” from Requiem
Composer: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900) “Impressionism”
Genre: Requiem mass

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Nessun dorma” from Turandot
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera aria

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Opera aria

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Symphony #8 (Symphony of a Thousand)-
Chorus Mysticus
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900)
Genre: Symphony

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Claire de Lune” from Suite Bergamasque
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Period: Romantic (1820-1900) “Impressionism”
Genre: Suite for piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Period: Modern (1900-present) “Impressionism”
Genre: Orchestral composition

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Symphonic poem
Vocab: symphonic poem-an orchestral work in one movement that illustrates a poem, novel, painting, or landscape

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Prelude in C# Minor
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Prelude

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Bogoroditse Devo” from Vespers
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-
1943)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Choral composition

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Suite for piano, opus 25, #1
Composer: Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Piano suite
Vocab: 12-tone-a style of composition devised by
Schönberg whereby all 12 notes in a chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another so there is no tonal center or key (atonal)

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Mondenstrunken” from Pierrot
Lunaire
Composer: Arnold Schönberg (1874-
1951)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Song cycle

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: “Augurs of Spring” from Rite of Spring
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Ballet

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Rhapsody in Blue
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-
1937)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Piano/Orchestral composition

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Fanfare for the Common Man
Composer: Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Orchestral composition

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Adagio for Strings
Composer: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Orchestral composition for strings

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Poeme Electronique
Composer: Edgar Varese (1883-1965)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Electronic music

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: 4’33”
Composer: John Cage (1912-1992)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Avant-garde

CLASSICAL MUSIC LISTENING
Title: Piano Phase
Composer: Steve Reich (1936-)
Period: Modern (1900-present)
Genre: Minimalism