New Freshman Music Literature List
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Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)
Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Essercizi (1754)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
- Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G, BWV 1049 (1720)
- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 (1722), Prelude & Fugue in C Minor
- Mass in B minor (1749), Kyrie I
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (1717):
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Symphony no. 92 in G major (“The Oxford”) (1789)
- String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2 ("Fifths") (1796)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491 (1786)
- Ave verum corpus, K.618 (1791)
- Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.591 (1789) (I) Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 (1812)
- Piano Sonata #23 in F minor, op. 57 ("Appassionata") (1806): Mvt I
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Impromptus, op. 90 (D. 899) (1827)
- Lieder
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
- William Tell: Overture (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- Symphony no. 4 in A major, op. 90 ("The Italian") (1833): Mvt I
- Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1845)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
- Mazurkas, op. 59 (1842)
- Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp minor, op. 39 (1839)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
César Franck (1822-1890)
- Violin Sonata in A (1886)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano Op. 114 (1891) (I) Allegro
- Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 (1892)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Violin Concerto, op. 35 (1878): Mvt I
- Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892):
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
- Scheherazade, op. 35 (1888)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Préludes, Book I (1910)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896)
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
- The Planets, Op. 32 (1917)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
- Three Places in New England (1911-14)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
- Three Piano Pieces, op. 11 (1909): Mvt I
- Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
- Take the A Train (1941)
by Billie Strayhorn (1939) with Lee Gaines (1942) and Joya Sherrill (1944)
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
- Struttin' with Some Barbecue (1927)
by Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971)
Count Basie (1904-1984)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (1904-1969)
Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936)
from String Quartet, op. 11 / II
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1986)
Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
- A Night in Tunisia (1942)
famous solo by Charlie Parker (1920-1955)
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
Art Blakey (1919-1990)
Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
John Coltrane (1926-1967)
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Wayne Shorter (1933-2023)
Lee Morgan (1938-1972)