Music 1A: Introduction to Music - Western Culture
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Listening Outlines

(This page is in progress. It will contain links to listening outlines for Music 1.)

Voice and Instrument Examples

• Video: Music Examples: Singers
• Video: Music Examples: Instruments

Movies

• Video: Music Examples: Movies

Elements

• The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

Middle Ages

• Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam (We Have Seen His Star) - Gregorian chant
• O successores (You successors), Higdegard of Bingen
• Estampie (Thirteenth century)
• "Ecco la Primavera", Landini
• "Agnus Dei" from Notre Dame Mass, Guillaume de Machaut
• Kyrie

Renaissance

• Ave Maria... Virgo Serena (Hail, Mary... Serene Virgin), Josquin
• Pope Marcellus Mass, Palestrina
• As Vesta Was Descending, Thomas Weelkes (Madrigal)
• Passamezzo and Galliard, Pierre Francisque Carouble, from Terpsichore, Michael Praetorius
• Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone
• Now is the Month of Maying

Baroque

• Tu Se' Morta - Claudio Monteverdi
  
  
• Cantata #140 - Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme - J.S. Bach

Classical

• Don Giovanni - W.A. Mozart

Romantic

• An die Musik - Franz Schubert
• Erlkonig - Franz Schubert
• Die Forelle - Franz Schubert
• Death and the Maiden - Franz Schubert
• Wild Rose - Franz Schubert
• Les Preludes - Franz Liszt
• Symphonie fantastique - Hector Berlioz
• "La donna é mobile" from Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi
• Romance in G Minor for Violin and Piano, Op 22 - Clara Wieck Schumann
• Symphonie fantastique - Hector Berlioz

Twentieth Century

• The Cage - Charles Ives
• Ann Street - Charles Ives
• The Things Our Fathers Loved - Charles Ives
• Pierrot Lunaire - Music: http://www.colleges.org/~music/modules/pierrot/2003rec.html
• A Survivor from Warsaw - Arnold Schoenberg
• Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
• Appalachian Spring Suite - Aaron Copland
• Nixon in China - John Adams
• Ride - Paul Lansky (includes versions of Idle Chatter.)

Other Twentieth Century Music Resources

• Impression, Sunrise, by Claude Monet
• The Scream, by Edvard Munch

Non-Western

Jazz

Music and Film


(A bit of context here.)