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Music Examples
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
Prince: Little Red Corvette
Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
James Brown: There Was a Time
Burt Bacharach and Hal David: Walk on By
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 4
The Beatles: If I Fell
Guillaume de Machaut: Quant en moy/Amour et biaute/Amara valde (Isorhythmic motet)
Leonard Bernstein: Maria
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Beethoven: Sonata for piano and violin no. 5: “Spring”
Beethoven: Sonata for piano and violin no. 4
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, finale
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9, finale
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 – II
Listening Guide
J.S. Bach: Chaconne
Art Tatum: Night & Day
Gregorian Chant
Machaut: Isorhythmic motet
Martin Luther: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Bach: Cantata BWV 80
German Christmas carol (traditional)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Bach: Cantata BWV 140
Beethoven: String Quartet no. 15, Op. 132 – III
Frédéric Chopin: Prelude, op. 28, no. 20
Cyrus Chestnut: Chopin Prelude
Stravinsky: L’histoire du Soldat – Grand Chorale
Bartók: String Quartet no. 5 – IV
Edward Elgar: Nimrod
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade – I
Maurice Ravel: Bolero
Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake
James Brown: There Was a Time
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 – II
Dies Irae chant
W.A. Mozart: Requiem – Dies Irae
Hector Berlioz: Requiem – Dies Irae
Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem – Dies Irae
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique finale – Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
New Orleans Second Line overview
Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
Stride Piano – Fats Waller: Latch On
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra: Sugarfoot Stomp
Duke Ellington Orchestra: Take the A Train
Keith Jarrett: Lalene
Miles Davis: Mademoiselle Mabry
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
John Dowland: Flow My Tears
James Taylor: You Can Close Your Eyes
Emily Dickinson poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death
John Adams: Harmonium, mvt II
Berlioz: Absence
Lover, Come Back to Me
Samuel Barber: Sure on this Shining Night
Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
James Agee’s text
G.F. Handel: As Steals the Morn
Handel: All We Like Sheep
Franz Schubert: Ständchen
Text for Ständchen (Ludwig Rellstab)
Schubert: Im Frühling
Text for Im Frühling (Ernst Schulze)
Benjamin Britten: The Ash Grove
Jake Heggie: Raymonde Linossier
Nico Muhly: The Last Letter
Bernstein: Some Other Time
Brahms: Requiem (Spotify)
Brahms Requiem text
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Beethoven: Piano sonata no. 30, Op. 109, III
Mahler: Symphony no. 2, IV – Urlicht
Urlicht text