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Recordings Discussed in Video Lectures

 

Lecture

Recordings

Lecture 2    What is Music?

Reich, Steve 

Different Trains

 

Orff, Carl

Carmina Burana

Lecture 3     What is Music? Part 2

Cage, John

4’ 33”

 

Cage, John

But What About

Lecture 4      Music and Literature

Strauss, Richard

Don Quixote

 

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Scheherzade

 

Prokofief, Sergey

Lieutenant Kije

 

Kodaly, Zoltan

Hary Janos

 

Copland, Aaron

Billy the Kid

 

Copland, Aaron

Appalachian Spring

Lecture 5     Music and God

Rutter, John

A Gaelic Blessing

 

Messiaen, Olivier

Ascension

 

Strauss, Richard

Also Sprach Zarathustra

 

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony No. 2

 

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony No. 3

Lecture 6     Music and Nature

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Symphony No. 6

 

Grofe, Ferde

Grand Canyon Suite

 

Strauss, Richard

Alpine Symphony

Lecture 7     The Movies    

Hermann, Bernard

Motion Picture Music

 

Arnold, Malcolm

Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Lecture 8     Stravinsky: In a Class by Himself

Stravinsky, Igor

Soldier’s Tale (L’histoire du Soldat)

 

Stravinsky, Igor

La Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)

 

Stravinsky, Igor

Circus Polka

 

Honegger, Arthur

Pacific 231

 

Milhaud, Darius

Boeuf sur la Toit

Lecture 9      The Birds

Respighi, Ottorino

Gli Uccelli (The Birds)

 

Beethoven, L.

Symphony No. 6

 

Stravinsky, Igor

L’oiseaux de Feu (Firebird)

Lecture 10     Why Do We Have Form?

 

 

Lecture 11      Scales and Harmony

Schonberg, Arnold

A Survivor from Warsaw

 

Webern, Anton

Passacaglia

 

Berg, Alban

Wozzeck

 

Ives, Charles

Three Places in New England

 

Ives, Charles

Variations on America

Lecture 12      Music, Magic and Sorcerers

Dukas, Paul

Apprenti Sorcier (Sorcerer’s Apprentice)

 

Mussorgsky, Modest

Noch Na Lysol Gore (Night on Bald Mountain)

 

De Falla, Manuel

Armor Brujo

 

Honegger, Arthur

Roi David (King David)

Lecture 13     Where Did It Begin?

Leonin

Viderunt Omnes

 

Perotin

Viderunt Omnes

 

Monty Python

Monk’s Chant

 

Troubadoures

La tierche estampie

Lecture 14     Pop Artists of the Day

Des Prez, Josquin

Basies Moy

 

Gesualdo, Carlo

Moro lasso

 

Palestrina, Giovanni

Stabat Mater

Lecture 15      Going Baroque

Byrd, William

Lord Willobie’s March

 

Clark, Jeremiah

Prince of Denmark

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Toccata in D minor

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata No. 140

 

Handel, Geo. F.

Hallelujah Chorus

 

Handel, Geo. F.

Music for the Royal Fireworks

Lecture 16     The Boys of St. Marks

Monteverdi, Claudio

Orfeo

Lecture 17     Viva Vivaldi

Vivaldi, Antonio

Gloria

 

Vivaldi, Antonio

The Four Seasons

Lecture 18     Bach and the Little Bachs

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Kunst Der Fuge (Art of the Fugue)

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Cantata No. 140

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Toccata in D minor

Lecture 19      Hallelujah Handel

Handel, Geo. F.

Hallelujah Chorus

 

Handel, Geo. F.

Music for the Royal Fireworks

Lecture 20     Those Classic Types

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Concerto for Trumpet

 

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Symphony No. 94 “Surprise”

 

Mozart, W. A.

Symphony No. 40

Lecture 21     Amadeus: Loved by God

Mozart, W. A.

Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)

 

Mozart, W. A.

Requiem

Lecture 22     A Beethoven Tragedy

Beethoven, L.

Egmont Overture

 

Beethoven, L.

Symphony No. 5

First Movement

 

Beethoven, L.

Symphony No. 6

Lecture 23     Follow the Lieder

Schubert, Franz

Erlkonig

 

Schubert, Franz

Symphony in D

 

Schumann, Robert

Fantasiestucke

Lecture 24      Uncle Brahms

Brahms, Johannes

Academic Festival Overture

 

Brahms, Johannes

Symphony No. 3

Lecture 25     Big Warbling Women or a Ridiculously Short History of Opera

Monteverdi, Claudio

Orfeo

 

Purcell, Henry

Dido and Aeneas

 

Gluck, Christoph W

Orfeo Ed Euridice

 

Barber, Samuel

Vanessa

 

Bartok, Bela

Bluebeard’s castle

Lecture 26     Love and Sex

Ravel, Maurice

Bolero

 

Strauss, Richard

Don Juan

 

Strauss, Richard

Der Rosenkavalier

 

Prokofieff, Sergey

Romeo and Juliet

 

Mahler, Gustav

Adagietto from Symphony No. 6

Lecture 27     Scoundrel Among Men

Wagner, Richard

Fliegende Hollander (Flying Dutchman)

 

Wagner, Richard

Parsifal

 

Wagner, Richard

Ring des Nibelungen

Lecture 28     The Russians Are Coming

Glinka, Mikhail

Russlan and Ludmilla Overture

 

Balakirev, Mily

Islamey

 

Mussorgsky, Modest

Night on Bald Mountain

 

Mussorgsky, Modest

Pictures at an Exhibition

 

Borodin, Alexander

Polovetsian Dances

 

Borodin, Alexander

In the Steppes of Central Asia

 

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Flight of the Bumblebee

 

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Capriccio Espagnol

 

Ricky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Russian Easter

 

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

The Nutcracker Ballet

 

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Symphony No. 5

Lecture 29     More Russians

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Piano Concerto No. 2

 

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Piano Concerto No. 3

 

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Rhapsodie Sur un Theme du Paganini

 

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Symphony No. 2

 

Prokofieff, Sergey

Romeo and Juliet

 

Prokofieff, Sergey

Symphony No. 5

 

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Symphony No. 5

Lecture 30     Music and Nationalism

Sibelius, Jean

Finlandia

 

Smetana, bedrich

Ma Vlast

 

Copland, Aaron

Rodeo from Billy the Kid

 

Copland, Aaron

Appalachian Spring

Lecture 31     A Few Good Englishmen

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fantasia on Greensleeves

 

Holst, Gustav

The Planets

 

Walton, William

Belshazzar’s Feast

 

Arnold, Malcolm

Shanties

 

Britten, Benjamin

Ceremony of Carols