Senior Music Literature List

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Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

• Sonata, op. 5, no. 12, in D minor, "La Folia" (1700)

 

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

• Hippolyte et Aricie (1733): Prologue and Act I:

• Overture
• Scene 1
• Scene 2
• Scene 3
• Scene 4
• Scene 5
• Scene 6
• Scene 7
• Scene 8

 

Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)

• Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (1749):

• Kyrie:
• 1. Chorus: Kyrie eleison
• 2. Duet: Christe eleison
• 3. Chorus: Kyrie eleison
  
  
• Credo:
• 4. Crucifixus
• 5. Et resurrexit
  

• Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (1713):

• 1. Sinfonia
• 2. Chorus: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in meinem Herzen
• 3. Aria: Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not
• 10. Aria: Erfreue dich, Seele, erfreue dich, Herze
• 11. Chorus: Das Lamm, das erwürget ist

 

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

• Essercizi (1754):

• Sonata in E: Andante comodo (K. 380)
• Sonata in E: Allegro (K. 381)

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• Viola Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (1787): I, II, III, IV

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Symphony no. 7 in A, op. 92 (1812): I, II, III, IV
  
  
• String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 (1826): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
  
  
• Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat Major, op.73 - Emperor (1811):
  
  
  • I. Allegro
  • II. Adagio un poco moto
  • III. Rondo: Allegro

 

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• String Quintet in C, D. 956 (1828): I, II, III, IV

 

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

• Tristan und Isolde (1859):

• Prelude to Act I
• Act III: Mild und Leise ("Isoldes Liebestod")

 

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

• Rigoletto (1851), Act III:

• E l'ami? (Rigoletto, Gilda, Duca, Sparafucile)
• Bella figlia dell'amore (Duca, Maddalena, Gilda, Rigoletto)
• La donna è mobile (Il Duca)
• Della vendetta alfin giunge l'istante (Rigoletto, Sparafucile, Il Duca)
• V'ho ingannato, colpevole fui (Gilda, Rigoletto)
  

• Otello (1887), Act I:

• Una vela! Un vesillo! (Chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)
• Esultate (Otello, Chorus, Iago, Roderigo)
• Roderigo, ebben che pensi? (Iago, Roderigo)
• Fuoco di gioia (Chorus)
• Roderigo, beviam! (Iago, Cassio, Chorus, Roderigo)
• Già nella notte densa (Otello, Desdemona)

 

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

• Symphony no. 9 in D minor (1894): I, II, III
  

 

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

• Boris Godunov (1873): Prologue:

• Scene 1
• Scene 2 (Coronation scene)

 

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

• Enigma Variations, op. 36 (1899):

• Theme
• Variation I (C. A. E.)
• Variation II (H. D. S-P.)
• Variation III (R. B. T.)
• Variation IV (W. M. B.)
• Variation VII (Troyte)
• Variation IX (Nimrod)
• Variation XIV (E. D. U)

 

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

• Finlandia, op. 26 (1900)

 

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

• Gaspard de la nuit (1908):

• 1. Ondine
• 2. Le Gibet
• 3. Scarbo
  

• Chanson madécasses (1926):

• 1. Nahandove
• 2. Méfiez-vous des blancs
• 3. Il est doux

 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

• String Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10 (1908):

• 1. Mäßig
• 2. Sehr rasch
• 3. "Litanei", langsam
• 4. "Entrückung", sehr langsam

 

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

• String Quartet no. 4 (1928): I, II, III, IV, V
  
  
• Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936): I, II, III, IV

 

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

• Requiem Canticles (1966):

• 1. Prelude
• 2. Exaudi
• 3. Dies Irae
• 4. Tuba mirum
• 5. Interlude
• 6. Rex tremendae
• 7. Lacrimosa
• 8. Libera me
• 9. Postlude

 

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

• Concerto, op. 24 (1934): I, II, III

 

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

• Ionisation (1931)

 

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

• Violin Concerto ("to the memory of an angel") (1935): I, II

 

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

• Piano Sonata no. 7, op. 83 (1942): I, II, III

 

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

• Porgy and Bess (1935), Act I, Scene I:

• 1. Introduction, Jasbo Brown
• 2. Summertime
• 3. Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call
• 4. Give him to me
• 5. Here's the ol' crap shark
• 6. Here comes the big boy!
• 7. Six to make!
• 8. Jesus, he's killed him!

 

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)

• Piccola Musica Notturna (1954)

 

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

• Symphony no. 5 in d minor, op. 47 (1937): I, II, III, IV

 

Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

• A Symphony for Three Orchestras (1976)

 

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

• Quartet for the End of Time (1941):

• 2. Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
• 3. Abîme des oiseaux
• 7. Fouillis d' arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps

 

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

• Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes), op. 33a (1945):

• 1. Dawn
• 2. Sunday Morning

 

George Perle (1915-2009)

• Concertino for Piano, Winds and Timpani (1979)

 

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

• Metastaseis (1954)