Music of the Classical Era to the present featuring: new works, improved editions, integrated commentary, improved cross-referencing to text and recordings, and internal trackings keyed to recordings.
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Part Four The Classical Era 1
99 Symphony in B Major, first movement (ca. 1740)
Georg Matthias Monn (1717-1750) 1
100 Sonata in D Major, K. 492 (ca. 1750?) Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-1757) 4
101 Symphony in D Major, Op. 3, No. 2, first movement
(ca. 1752-1755) Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) 6
102 Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 2, first movement (1766)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) 10
103 Fantasia in C minor (finale of Keyboard Sonata, Wq. 63/6)
(1753) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) 13
104 Piano Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20, first movement (1771)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 17
105 String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (1781) Haydn 20
106 Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major, first movement (1795) Haydn 29
107 Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107, No. 1, first movement (1772)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 38
108 Piano Concerto in Eb Major, K. 271, first movement (1777)
Mozart 45
109 La serva padrona: "Aspettare e non venire" (1733)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) 62
110 Alceste, Act II, Scene 3 (excerpt) (1767; revised 1776)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) 66
111 Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I, Scenes 1-5 (1787) Mozart 76
112 Requiem, K. 626, Introit (1791) Mozart 98
113 Kennst du das Land (1796) Carl Friedrich Zelter
(1758-1832) 102
114 Wake Ev'ry Breath: A Canon of 6 in One with a Ground
(1770) William Billings (1746-1800) 104
Part Five The 19th Century 106
115 Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major ("Eroica"), Op. 55 (1803)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 106
115a First Movement 106
115b Second Movement (Marcia funebre) 122
116 Symphonie fantastique, fifth movement (finale) (1830)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) 132
117 Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) 159
118 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, second movement
(1806) Beethoven 187
119 Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein"), first movement
(1804) Beethoven 189
120 String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 130 (excerpts) (1826) Beethoven 195
121 Three Lieder, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 204
121a Erlkoenig, D. 328 (1815) 204
121b Prometheus, D. 674 (1819) 207
121c Wanderers Nachtlied, D. 768 (1824) 210
122 Three Settings of Goethe's Kennst du das Land 211
122a Kennst du das Land (Mignons Gesang), D. 321
(1815) Schubert 211
122b Kennst du das Land (Mignon) (1849) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 213
122c Mignon (1888) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) 215
123 Liebst du um Schoenheit (1841) Clara Wieck Schumann
(1819-1896) 219
124 Beautiful Dreamer (1862) Stephen Foster (1826-1864) 221
125 V chetyrjokh stenakh ("In Four Walls"), from the song cycle
Bez solnca ("Sunless") (1874) Modeste Mussorgsky (1839-1881) 222
126 Lieder ohne Worte: Op. 30, No. 3 (1837) Mendelssohn 224
127 Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (1833) Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849) 224
128 Preludes, Op. 28, Nos. 1-4 (1839) Chopin 227
129 Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1835) Chopin 230
130 Galop de bal (ca. 1840) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) 237
131 Carnaval, Op. 9 (excerpts) (1835) Robert Schumann 238
132 Nuages gris (1881) Liszt 241
133 Caprices, Op. 1, No. 24, in A minor (ca. 1810) Niccolo Paganini
(1782-1840) 242
134 Etudes d'execution transcendante, No. 1 in C Major
(1838; revised 1851) Liszt (1811-1886) 244
135 The Banjo (1855) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) 245
136 Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) 252
136a Act 1, Scene 2, cavatina (Figaro): "Largo al factotum" 252
136b Act 1, Scene 5, cavatina (Rosina): "Una voce poco fa" 257
137 Rigoletto (1851) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) 261
137a Act I (excerpts) 261
137b Act III, Scene 3 (Quartetto: "Un di, se ben rammentomi") 302
138 Tristan und Isolde (1859) Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 315
138a Prelude 315
138b Act II: end of Scene 1 and beginning of Scene 2 322
139 The Pirates of Penzance (1879) William S. Gilbert
(1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) 334
140 Virga Jesse floruit (1885) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) 340
141 An der schoenen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (On the Beautiful
Blue Danube) (Original orchestral version reduced for piano)
(1867) Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899) 343
142 King Cotton (Original band version reduced for piano) (1895)
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) 347
143 The Nutcracker (excerpts) (1892) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893) 349
144 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ("From the New World"),
Largo (1893) Antonin DvorCak (1841-1904) 361
145 Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, fourth movement (finale)
(1885) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 371
146 Symphony No. 1 in D Major, third movement (1888)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) 387
Part Six The 20th Century 396
147 Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune (1894) Claude Debussy
(1862-1918) 396
148 Preludes, Book 1: "Voiles" (1910) Debussy 412
149 Mikrokosmos, Book 4, No. 101: Diminished Fifth (between 1932
and 1939) Bela Bartok (1881-1945) 414
150 The Cage (1906) Charles Ives (1874-1954) 415
151 The Things Our Fathers Loved (1917) Ives 416
152 The Unanswered Question (1906/1930-1935) (excerpt) Ives 418
153 Le Sacre du printemps (excerpt) (1913) Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971) 419
154 Maple Leaf Rag (1899) Scott Joplin (1868-1917) 427
155 Children's Corner Suite: "Golliwog's Cakewalk" (1908) Debussy 429
156 St. Louis Blues (1914) W. C. Handy (1873-1958) 431
157 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing) (1930)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) 434
158 Mikrokosmos, Book 6, No. 148: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm,
No. 1 (between 1932 and 1939) Bartok 435
159 Saudades do Brasil (1921) Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) 438
159a No. 5, "Ipanema" 438
159b No. 6, "Gavea" 439
160 The Banshee (1925) Henry Cowell (1897-1965) 440
161 Pierrot lunaire (1912) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) 441
161a No. 7, "Der kranke Mond" ("The Sick Moon") 441
161b No. 14, "Die Kreuze" ("The Crosses") 442
161c No. 21, "O alter Duft" ("O Redolence of Old") 445
162 Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5, No. 4 (1908)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) 447
163 Wozzeck, Act I, Scene 1 (1925) Alban Berg (1885-1935) 448
164 Piano Suite, Op. 25 (1923) Schoenberg 460
164a Praeludium 460
164b Menuett 461
165 Lyric Suite, for String Quartet, third movement (1926) Berg 463
166 Classical Symphony, Op. 25, third movement (1917)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) 474
167 Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: "Alabama Song"
(1927) Kurt Weill (1900-1950) 478
168 Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, third movement
(1936) Bartok 482
169 Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78, No. 4: "Vstavaite, ludi russkie"
("Arise, People of Russia") (1938) Prokofiev 497
170 Appalachian Spring: Suite (excerpt) (1945) Aaron Copland
(1900-1990) 505
171 Quatuor pour la fin du temps, first movement: "Liturgie de
cristal" (1940) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) 525
172 String Quartet No. 8, third movement (1960) Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975) 529
173 Night and Day (1932) Cole Porter (1891-1964) 534
174 Sophisticated Lady (1933) Ellington 536
175 West Side Story: "Tonight" (1957) Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) 538
176 Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933) 547
177 Three Compositions for Piano, No. 1 (1947) Milton Babbitt
(b. 1916) 556
178 49330 (1952) John Cage (1912-1992) 559
179 Roll Over, Beethoven (1956) Chuck Berry (b. 1926) 560
180 Traditional, Tom Dooley Arranged by Charles Seeger
(1886-1979) and Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) 561
181 In C (1964) Terry Riley (b. 1935) 562
182 Orfeo II (excerpt) (1976) Thea Musgrave (b. 1928) 565
183 Ritual for Piano (1987) Tania Leon (b. 1943) 570
184 Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth, first movement
(Introit-"Within the Circles of Our Lives") (1992)
Libby Larsen (b. 1950) 576