Junior Music Literature List

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

• Missa Papae Marcelli (1561):

• Kyrie
• Gloria

 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

• St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (1727):

• 1. Chorus: Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen!
• 2. Recitative: Evangelist, Jesus: Da Jesus diese Rede vollendet hatte
• 3. Chorale: Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen
• 4a. Evangelist: Da versammleten sich die Hohenpriester und Schriftgelehrten
• 4b. Chorus: Ja nicht auf das Fest
• 4c & 4d. Evangelist: Da nun Jesus war zu Bethanien   Chorus: Wozu dienet dieser Unrat?
• 4e. Evangelist, Jesus: Da das Jesus merkete, sprach er zu ihnen
• 5. Recitative (alto): Du lieber Heiland du
• 6. Aria (alto): Buß und Reu
  

• Partitia no. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1003 (1720): Chaconne
  
  
• English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (1715):

• 1. Prélude
• 2. Allemande
• 3. Courante
• 4. Sarabande
• 5. Bourrée I and Bourrée II
• 6. Gigue
  

• Italian Concerto, BWV 971 (1735): I, II, III

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791)

• Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (1789): I, II, III, IV
  

• Symphony no. 41 in C major ("The Jupiter"), K. 551 (1788): I, II, III, IV

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Piano Concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58 (1806): I, II, III
  

• String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 ("Razumovsky String Quartet #2") (1806): I, II, III, IV
  

• Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125 (1824): I, II, III, IV, IV (continued)

 

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

• Ballade no. 4 in F minor, op. 52 (1843)

 

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• Papillons, op. 2 (1831):

• Introduction in D major. Moderato
• 1. Waltz in D
• 2. Waltz in E-flat, Prestissimo
• 3. Waltz in F-sharp minor
• 4. Waltz in F-sharp minor
• 5. Polonaise in E-flat
• 6. Waltz in D minor
• 7. Waltz in F minor, Semplice
• 8. Waltz in C-sharp minor
• 9. Waltz in B-flat, Prestissimo
• 10. Waltz in C major, Vivo
• 11. Polonaise in D
• 12. Finale in D
  

• Piano Quintet, op. 44 (1842): I, II, III, IV

 

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

• Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (1853): I, II, III

 

César Franck (1822-1890)

• Violin Sonata in A (1886): I, II, III, IV

 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 (1862): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77 (1878): I, II, III
  
  
• Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98 (1885): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• Violin Sonata no. 3 in D minor, op. 108 (1888): I, II, III, IV

 

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

• Violin Concerto, op. 35 (1878): I, II, III
  
  
• 1812 Overture, op. 49 (1880)

 

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Préludes, Book I (1910):

• 2. Voiles
• 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent de l'ouest
• 10. La cathédrale engloutie
• 11. La danse de Puck
• 12. Minstrels

 

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

• Le Poème de l'extase, op. 54 (1908)

 

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

• Symphony of Psalms (1930): I, II, III

 

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

• Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 10 (1913): I, II, III, IV, V

 

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

• Poème électronique (1958)

 

Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1971): Part I

 

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

• Piano Variations (1930)

 

Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

• String Quartet no. 4 (1985): III, IV

 

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

• The School for Scandal Overture, op. 5 (1931)
  
  
• Adagio for Strings, op. 11 (1936)

 

Hugo Weisgall (1912-1997)

• The Tenor (1950):

• 1. Coming! Coming!
• 16. And yet, you cannot leave the stage
• 17. Yes, Maurice, yes, yes

 

Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)

• Philomel (1964)

 

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

• Atmosphères (1961)
  
  
• Lux Aeterna (1966)

 

Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)

• Le marteau sans maître (1955):

• 5. Bel édifice et les pressentiments
• 6. Bourreaux de solitude

 

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)

• Gesang der Jünglinge (1956)

 

Steve Reich (b. 1936)

• Music for 18 Musicians (1976): Section 7

 

John Adams (b. 1947)

• Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)