Freshman Music Literature List

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Medieval monophony

• Antiphon:  Hodie Christus Natus Est
  
  
• Bernard of Ventadorn (1150-1195):  Quan veh la lauzeta mover

Medieval polyphony

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179):  Sequence: O virgo ac diadema
  
  
• Francesco Landini (1325?-1397):  Ochi dolente
  
  
• Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1370-1412):  O Padua sidus praeclarum

Renaissance/Early Baroque Secular

• Josquin Desprez (ca. 1450-1521):  Mille regretz
  
  
• William Byrd (ca. 1539-1623):  Variations on 'John come kiss me now'
  
  
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643):  Capriccio sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

• Cruda amarilli, che col nome ancora (1605)

Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)

• Jepthe (1648): 

• Filia, Eccho: Plorate colles
• Chorus: Plorate filii Israel

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

• The Four Seasons: Winter, op. 8, no. 4 (RV 297, 1723): I, II, III

Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

• Giulio Cesare, Act III (1724):
  
  
• Scene 1:
  
  
• Achilla (aria): Dal fulgor di questa spada
  
  
• Scene 2:
  
  
• Sinfonia
• Tolomeo (aria): Domerò la tua fierezza chil mio trono
• Cleopatra (aria): Piangerò la sorte mia, si crudele
• Cesare (recit. and aria): Dall ondoso periglio salvo mi; Aure, deh, per pietà spirate
  


• Israel in Egypt (1739), Part I (Exodus): 
  
  
• 1. Recitative (Tenor): Now there arose a new king over Egypt
• 2. Solo (Alto) and Chorus: And the children of Israel sigh'd
• 3. Recitative (Tenor): Then sent He Moses
• 4. Chorus: They loathed to drink of the river
• 5. Aria (Alto): Their land brought forth frogs
• 6. Chorus: He spake the word

• Messiah (1741):
  
  
• 1. Sinfonia (Overture)
• 2. (Chorus): For unto us a child is born
• 3. (Chorus) Hallelujah!

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

• Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (1708)
  
  
• Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (1731): I, II, III
  
  
• Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G, BWV 1049 (1720): I, II, III

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

• Symphony no. 104 in D Major (1795): I, II, III, IV

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491 (1786): I, II, III
  
  
• Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550 (1788): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Symphony no. 38 in D major, K. 504 (1786): I, II, III

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Piano Sonata #8 in C minor, op. 13 ("Pathétique") (1798): I, II, III
  
  
• Piano Sonata #23 in F minor, op. 57 ("Appassionata") (1805): I, II, III
  
  
• Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67 (1808): I, II, III, IV

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

• Der Freischütz (1821): Overture

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

• Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816):
  
  
• Overture
  
  
• Act I:
  
  
• Introduzione
• Cavatina (Ecco, ridente in cielo)
• Cavatina (Largo al factotum)
• Recitativo/Canzone (Se il mio nome saper voi bramate)
• Duetto (All'idea di quel metallo)
• Cavatina (Una voce poco fa / Io sono docile)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Symphony no. 8 in B minor ("Unfinished") (1822): I, II

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, op. 21 (1826)
  
  
• Symphony no. 4 in A major, op. 90 ("The Italian") (1833): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1844): I, II, III

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

• Symphony no. 6 in B minor ("Pathétique"), op. 74 (1893): I, II, III, IV

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

• Symphony no. 9 in E minor ("From the New World") (1893): I, II, III, IV

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

• Scheherazade, op. 35 (1888): I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

• La bohème (1896), Act I: 
  
  
• 1. Questo Mar Rosso
• 2. Nei cieli bigi
• 3. Già dell'Apocalisse appariscono i segni
• 11. Sì, mi chiamano Mimì
• 12. Ehi! Rodolfo!
• 13. O soave fanciulla.

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

• Symphony no. 4 in G Major (1900): I, II, III, IV

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

• Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28 (1895)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

• Three Places in New England (1917):

• I - The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common
  
• II - Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
  
• III - The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

• Daphnis et Chloé (1913), Suite no. 2

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1975)

• Le sacre du printemps (1913), Part I: 
  
  
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Augurs of Spring
• 3. Mock Abduction
• 4. Spring Rounds
• 5. Games of Rival Tribes
• 6. Procession of the Sage
• 7. Adoration of the Earth
• 8. Dance of the Earth

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

• Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
  
  
• Appalachian Spring (1944): Variations on "Simple Gifts"

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

• Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)