Freshman Listening Exam (New)

Freshman Listening Exam (New)

Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)

Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

  • Essercizi (1754)

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

  • Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G, BWV 1049 (1720)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

  • Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (1717):

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

  • Symphony no. 92 in G major (“The Oxford”) (1789)
  • String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2 (“Fifths”) (1796)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

  • Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491 (1786)

Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 (1812)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

  • Impromptus, op. 90 (D. 899) (1827)
  • Lieder

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

  • WIlliam Tell: Overture (1829)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

  • Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1845)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

  • Mazurkas, op. 59 (1842)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

  • Violin Sonata in A (1886)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

  • Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 (1892)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

  • Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892)

Nikoalii Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

  • Scheherazade, op. 35 (1888)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

  • Preludes, Book I (1919)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896)

Scott Joplin (18688-1917)

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

  • The Planets, Op. 32 (1917)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

  • Three Places in New England (1911-14)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

  • Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Count Basie (1904-1984)

Coleman Randolph Hawkings (1904-1969)

Benny Goodman (1909-1986)

Samuel Barber (1910-1986)

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1986)

Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

Art Blakey (1919-1990)

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)

John Coltrane (1926-1967)

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

Wayne Shorter (1933-2023)

Lee Morgan (1938-1972)

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