Sophomore Music Literature List

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Medieval monophony

• Hymn (text by Thomas Aquinas, ca. 1225-74): Pange lingua gloriosi

Medieval polyphony

• Perotin (ca. 1200): Viderunt omnes
  
  
• Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-77): De fortune

Renaissance sacred

• Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-74): Ave regina caelorum (ca. 1465)
  
  
• Josquin Desprez (ca. 1450-1521): Missa Pange lingua (1515):
  
  
• Kyrie
• Agnus Dei
  
  
• William Byrd (ca. 1539-1623): Mass for Four Voices (1593):
  
  
• Kyrie
• Credo
• Agnus Dei
  
  
• Tomás Luis de Victoria (ca. 1548-1611): O magnum mysterium (1572)
  
  
• Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1554/7-1612):
  
  
• Sacrae Symphoniae (1597): Sonata Pian' e forte

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

• Vespers (1610): Magnificat
  
  
• L'Orfeo (1607):
  
  
• 1. Toccata
• 2. Prologue
• Act II:
• 3. Orpheus: "Vi ricorda, o bosch'ombrosi"
• 4. Orpheus: "Tu se' morta"
• Act III:
• 5. Orpheus: "Possente spirto"

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

• Saul, Saul

Henry Purcell (1659-95)  

• Dido and Aeneas (1688-90), Act III:
  
  
• Scene i
• 1. Song and Sailor's Dance
• 2. Recit, Song, Chorus, Witches' Dance
  
  
• Scene ii
• 3. Recit, Chorus
• 4. Recit: "Thy Hand, Belinda", Song: "When I am Laid in Earth"
• 5. Cupids' Chorus.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (1708)
  
  
• The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue in C minor (BWV 847) (1722)
  
  
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) (1731):
  
  
• 1. Chorale: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
• 2. Recitative (tenor): Er kommt
• 3. Aria (soprano, bass): Wann kommst du, mein Heil?
• 4. Chorale (tenor): Zion hört die Wächter singen
• 5. Recitative: So geh herein zu mir
• 6. Aria (soprano, bass): Mein Freund ist mein!
• 7. Chorale: Gloria sei dir gesungen.
  
  
• The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue in D major (BWV 874) (1742)
  

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

• Symphony no. 82 in C major ("The Bear") (1786): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2 (1796-7): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Die Schöpfung ("The Creation") (1798):
  
  
• 1. Overture – The Representation of Chaos
• 2. Let there be Light
• 6. Rolling in foaming billows
• 13. The heavens are telling the Glory of God
• 34. Sing the Lord ye voices all!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• Piano Sonata #8 in A minor, K. 310 (1778): I, II, III
  
  
• String Quartet #19 in C major ("Dissonance"), K. 465 (1785): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 (1786): Act I:
  
  
• Overture
• Scene i:
• Duet: Cinque ... dieci
• Recitative: Cosa stai misurando
• Scene ii:
• 3. Duettino: Se a caso Madama
• 4. Recitative: Or bene ascolta
• 5. Recitative: Bravo, Signor padrone!
• Scene iii:
• 6. Cavatina: Se voui ballare
• Scene vi:
• 7. Aria: Non so più son, cosi faccio
  
  
• Requiem, K. 626 (1791):
  
  
• 1. Introitus
• 2. Kyrie
• 3. Dies irae

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Symphony no. 3 in E-flat, op. 55 ("Eroica") (1804): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Symphony no. 6 in F, op. 68 ("Pastorale") (1808): I, II, III, IV, V
  
  
• Leonora Overture #3, op. 72a (1806)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Impromptus, op. 90 (D. 899), no. 2-4 (1827): 2, 3, 4
  
  
• Lieder (1815-1826)
  
  
• "An die Musik"
• "An Sylvia"
• "Heidenröslein"
• "Im Abendrot"
• "Der Musensohn"
• "Die Forelle"
• "Der Tod und das Mädchen"

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

• Bevenuto Cellini, Overture, op. 23 (1838)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

• Preludes, op. 28 (1839), nos. 1-12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  
  
• Mazurkas, op. 59 (1845), nos. 1-3: 1, 2, 3
  
  
• Nocturnes, op. 27 (1835): 1, 2
  
  
• Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp minor, op. 39 (1839)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• Dichterliebe, op. 48 (1840):

• 1. "Im wunderschonen Monat Mai"
• 2. "Aus meinen Tränen spriessen"
• 3. "Die Rose, die Lilie"
• 4. "Wenn ich in deine augen seh'"
• 5. "Ich will meine Seele tauchen"
• 6. "Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome"
• 7. "Ich grolle nicht"

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68 (1876): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45 (1868): I, II

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• La Mer (1905):

• 1. De l'aube à midi sur la mer
• 2. Jeux de vagues
• 3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

• Three Piano Pieces, op. 11 (1909): I, II, III
  
  
• Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16 (1909):

• 1. Vorgefühle (Premonitions)
• 2. Vergangenes (Yesteryears)
• 3. Sommermorgen an einem See (Summer Morning by a Lake)

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

• Noches en los jardines de España, G. 49 (1915): 1. En el Generalife

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

• Wozzeck (1922), Act III:

• Scene i
• Scene i (continuation)
• Scene ii
• Scene iii
• Scene iv
• Scene v

Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

• Symphony no. 1 in E minor (1927): I, II, III

Jazz

• Duke Ellington (1899-1974): A Tone Parallel to Harlem (1951)
  
  
• Louis Armstrong (1901-1971): West End Blues (1928)
  
  
• Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969): Body and Soul (1939)
  
  
• Art Tatum (1909-1956): Tenderly (1951)
  
  
• Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), with Charlie Parker (1920-1955): Salt Peanuts (1945)
  
  
• Machito Orchestra:

• Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (1950):
  
  
• 1. Cancion
• 2. Mambo
• 3. Mambo (cont.)
• 4. 6/8
• 5. Jazz
• 6. Rhumba Abierta