Music
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Musical Elements
[Music Guide 1] Britten: A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM
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Non-Western
[Music Guide 2] African Traditional
Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWRcXYsYMo
[Music Guide 2] Maru-Bihag (Sitar and Tabla Music from India)—clip starts at 0:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVdKR4E3zLQ
[Music Guide 2] Japanese Music (koto)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEkabZJCPM
[Music Guide 2] Kebjar Hudjan
Mas (Balinese Gamelan Music from Indonesia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_SFYt02848
[Music Guide 2] Sioux Indian Love
Song (Native American traditional)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nNey1PMcw
[other
non-western example] Middle-Eastern Music ('Ud and Darabukkah)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtFaqcnua2U
[other non-western example] Mariachi Music (Mexico)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRn2qmmOes
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EARLY MUSIC: Medieval
[Music Guide 3] Anonymous: "Alleluia vidimus stellam" [chant]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApX4DJvPpEg
[Music Guide 4] Hildegard of Bingen: "O Successores" [monophonic song]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCmHuz5oTk
[Music Guide 5] Anonymous: Estampie [Medieval dance]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBie9InfMUI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL9D6181842964441C
[Music Guide 6-chant] Anonymous: "Haec dies" [chant]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxox8JF1gyw
[Music Guide 6-organum] Perotin: "Haec dies" [organum]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7iKKrj4NU&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 7] Machaut: "Agnus Dei" from Messe de Notre Dame [Medieval Mass]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRAYbgdxew#t=00m09s
EARLY MUSIC: Renaissance
[Music Guide 8] Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria-virgo serena [motet]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCtYOb2OA4
[Music Guide 9] Palestrina: "Agnus Dei [I]" from Pope Marcellus Mass
[Renaissance
Mass]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTbE9AfcX0
[Music Guide 10] Weelkes: As Vesta Was From Latmos
Hill Descending
[English
madrigal]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95DJ7oqTWK8&list=RD95DJ7oqTWK8
[Music Guide 11] Gesualdo: Moro, lasso {Italian madrigal]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
EARLY MUSIC: early-Baroque
[Music Guide 12] Monteverdi: "Tu sei morta" from L'Orfeo [Opera]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2y4oIRn-3g
[Music Guide 13] Purcell:
"Dido's Lament" from Dido and
Aeneas
[recitative
and aria]
http://www.youTube.com/watch?v=9ilLvQbCUdE
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COMMON-PRACTICE ERA: Late Baroque
[Music Guide 14] Corelli: Trio
Sonata in D major, Op. 3, No. 2 [Trio Sonata]
Movement 1 (slow) Movement 2 (fast;
starts at 2m10s) Movement 3 (slow;
starts at 3m8s) Movement 4
(fast; starts at 5m16s)
[Music Guide 15] Vivaldi: "Spring" from The Four Seasons [Concerto]
http://www.youTube.com/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg#t=0m3s
[Music Guide 16] Pachelbel: Canon in D major [Canon]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0
[Music Guide 17] JS Bach: Little Fugue in G minor [Fugue]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhRa3REdozw#t=0m7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVadl4ocX0M
[Music Guide 18] JS Bach:
Orchestral Suite No. 1 [Suite]
—clip starts at 0:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yusUGyCZkZk
[Music Guide 19] JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 [Concerto grosso]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6-x9sdEYo
[Music Guide 20] JS Bach: Cantata No. 140, 1st movement [Cantata]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGe0j52KcA
[Music Guide 21] Handel: "Hallelujah" from Messiah [Oratorio]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWkNxn3duA
COMMON-PRACTICE ERA: Classic Era
[Music Guide 22] Haydn: Symphony No. 94, movement 2 [Theme & Variations]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwMXj0Y1_Y
[Music Guide 23] Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, movement 1
[Sonata form]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vttZzUPg3A
[Music Guide 24] Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, movement 1 [Sonata form]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEX0-nwN4Y
[Music Guide 24] Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, movement 3 [Minuet & trio]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1CRXbQMZZY
[Music Guide 25] Mozart: Symphony No. 40, movement 1 [Sonata
form]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxTIDg2xQBc&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 25] Mozart: Symphony No. 40, movement 3 [Minuet & trio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clOAGC_Fgh4&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 26] Mozart: Scene
from Act 1 of The Marriage of Figaro
[comic
opera] The scene discussed starts at 21m50s and ends at 34m17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugFH6PxeMQ
[Music Guide 27] Mozart: Final scene of Don Giovanni [tragic opera]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Iv28yYMCc
[Music Guide 28] Mozart: "Lacrimosa" from Requiem Mass ["Mass for the Dead"]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE2muDZksP4
[Music Guide 29] Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13, movement 2 [Rondo]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVrGi0veGY
[Music Guide 30] Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4,
movement 4
[Sonata-rondo]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-AIDdIrT8
[Music Guide 32] Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, movement 1 [Sonata form]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br1EMrlGXyw&frags=pl,wn
[Music Guide 32] Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, movement 3 [Scherzo & Trio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbyBINYBfo
[Music Guide 33] Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, movement 4 [Theme and Variations]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3D5Q6Eq2w
COMMON-PRACTICE ERA: Romantic Era
[Music Guide 34] Schubert: Erlkonig [Lied]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI
[Music Guide 35] Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, movement 4 [Program symphony]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX70PAu3oA#t=0m8s
[Music Guide 36] Robert Schumann: Carnaval [Piano cycle of character pieces]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZeoxFxfqdQ
[Music Guide 37] Clara Wieck Schumann: Romance
in G minor [chamber music]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQkyTZFG7Ws&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 38] Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 [Character
piece]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5U8kVYS88&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 40] Smetana: The Moldau [Symphonic
poem]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcDzRjMIDvo
[Music Guide 41] Brahms: Symphony No 3, movement 3 [sad scherzo & trio]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejOTIAf-giM
[Music Guide 42] Brahms: excerpt from A German Requiem [Choral music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzRjljiPON8&feature=related
[Music Guide 43] J. Strauss Jr: Blue Danube Waltz
[Viennese waltz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTibyca6x8&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 44] Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World"), movement 2
[Symphony]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYl4Xb4cDQ8#t=0m9s
[Music Guide 45] Rossini: scene from The Barber of Seville [Italian comic opera]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_0wPYFp9A
[Music Guide 46] Bizet: "Habanera" from Carmen {French opera]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg
[Music Guide 47] Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 [Incidental music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilnwc0GckYw
[Music Guide 48] Tchaikovsky: excerpt from The Nutcracker [Ballet]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1AeJm7XF0#t=0m11s
[Music Guide 49] Wagner: Prelude to Act
III of Lohengrin
[Prelude
to a Musikdrama]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2k_xnE2XQ
[Music Guide 50] Wagner: Prelude
to Act I of Tristan und Isolde
[Prelude to a Musikdrama" opera]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw
[Music Guide 51] Wagner: Die Walkure from
The Ring of the Nibelungs
[Musikdrama]:
- Prelude to Act III the "Ride of the Valkyries" is at the start of this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PHINKZrwRs
"Wotan's Farewell" from Act III starts at 6'30" in the clip below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTaH8USQH4
[Music Guide 52] Puccini: Scene from La Boheme [Italian "verismo" opera]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wD5kBb3-bQ
[Music Guide 53] Leoncavallo: "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci [versismo opera]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4
[Music Guide 54] Sousa: Star and Stripes Forever [American Band Music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0RRdPdKcM
[Music Guide 55] R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra [Symphonic poem]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qgbIZxN8fc#t=0m17s
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MODERN ART MUSIC
[Music Guide 56] Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun [Symphonic
poem]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CipRfYTwd0s
[Music Guide 57] Stravinsky: Scene from
The Rite of Spring
[Ballet]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1OQkHybEQ
[Music Guide 58] Schoenberg: "Mondestrunken" from Pierrot lunaire [atonal Lied]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ala_vGjv-YI&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 59] Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
[12-tone
serialism, secular cantata]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWai0SEpUQ#t=0m30s
[Music Guide 60] Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra [atonal
chamber music]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzpEmuLVrwc
[Music Guide 61] Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, movement 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04M2pQ0jOeE
[Music Guide 62] Still: Afro-American Symphony, movement 3
[American
symphony]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6K8PiecgI
[Music Guide 63] Copland: "Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring [Ballet]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMtCh0VuoKg&frags=pl%2Cwn
[Music Guide 64] Barber: Adagio for Strings [Neo-Romanticism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PWdOoOQjI
[Music Guide 65] Bernstein: Scene
from West Side Story
[Jazz-influenced
art music/musical theatre]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV3hIL-G0
[Music Guide 66] Cowell: The Banshee [Avant-garde piano]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMga6BcabI
[Music Guide 67] Cage: The Perilous Night [Prepared piano]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFj4-AA4p_E
[Music Guide 68] Cage: 4'33" [Chance music]
[Music Guide 69] Varese: Poeme electronique [Electronic music]-Starts at 2m33s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVJgOtZT-b8
- t=2m33s
[Music Guide 70] Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer [Multi-serialism]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5n1pZn4izI
[Music Guide 71] Penderecki: Threnody
to the Victims of Hiroshima
["expressionism"]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8
- t=0m32s
[Music Guide 72] Glass: excerpt form Einstein on the Beach [Minimalism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91NyQkeZO_M
[Music Guide 73] Crumb: Black Angels, movement 7 [electrified string quartet]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHL54OPQBsc&feature=related#t=1m20s
[Music Guide 74] Reich: Violin Phase [Minimalism]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1OvwR3wB4
[Music Guide 75] Zwillich: Concerto Grosso 1985, movement 1 [Quotation Music]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIIHmrtvFA
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JAZZ
Louis Armstrong: Hotter Than That ["Hot" Jazz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAlrpx40UnE
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Orchestral Jazz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iw2ikz1W68
Edward "Duke" Ellington: The "C" Jam Blues [Swing]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOlpcJhNyDI
Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing! [Big Band]-with drummer Gene Krupa and trumpeter Harry James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k
The Andrews Sisters: Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B [Boogie Woogie]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8of3uhG1tCI
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Koko [Bebop]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okrNwE6GI70
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take 5 ["Cool" Jazz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2In5a9LDNg
Miles Davis: Tutu [Fusion (Jazz + Rock elements)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6j7Jf9al0
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz ["Free" Jazz]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJ-BZyCIh8#t=03m45s