High School Music Listening List

Music Appreciation Listening List 2010-2011

Beethoven:
5th Symphony movement 1
6th Symphony movement 1
9th Symphony movement 2
Piano Sonata “Pathetique”

Chopin:
Nocturne in C sharp minor
Nocturne in E flat major
Funeral March

Prokofiev:
Peter and the Wolf
“Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
The Lark in Flight
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Benjamin Britten:
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Ceremony of Carols

Rachmaninoff:
Piano concerto 3
Rhapsodie on a Theme by Paganini

Schubert:
Piano Sonata in A

Liszt:
Hungarian Rhapsody

Schumann:
Der Tod und das Madchen
Traumerei

Brahms:
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Lullaby

Grieg:
In the Hall of the Mountain King

Dvorak:
New World Symphony 2nd Movement-Largo
Saints-Saens:
Carnival of the Animals-the elephant
Carnival of the Animals-the swan
Carnival of the Animals-the Kangaroo

Hayden:
Emperor’s String Quartet

Bach:
Tocatta and Fugue in D minor
Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 and 5

Mozart:
Marriage of Figaro Overture
La Donna e Mobile
Requiem
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik

Tchaikovsky:
5th Symphony movement 1 and 3
Swan Lake Overture
1812 Overture Finale

Sibelius:
Finlandia

Felix Mendelssohn:
Songs without Words No. 2 in A minor
Fingal’s Overture
Midsummer Night’s Dream overture

Wagner:
Flight of the Valkyries
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

Handel:
Water Music
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Purcell:
Be Welcome Then Great Sir
If Music Be the Food of Love
Hear My Prayer O Lord

Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons
Corelli:
Christmas Concerto

Telemann:
Flute Sonata Canonic Sonatas

Gustav Holst:
The Planets-Jupiter