INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC

Listening Unit One

 

Baroque

WATER MUSIC George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Ouverture (10)

Menuet (16) AABB (2)

Bouree (7) AABBCCDDAABB (4)

Andante (17) AABA (2)

Country Dances I/II (18) AABBCCDDAABB (4)

English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, Conductor Archiv CD 410525-2

 

Classical

SYMPHONY NO. 40 IN G MINOR, K.550 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

3. Menuet (AABBCCDDAB) (5)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, Conductor RCA CD RCD 14413

 

Romantic

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Promenade

Gnomus

Promenade

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Conductor RCA CD 5661-2-RC

 

20th Century

THE COMEDIANS, OPUS 26 Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

Prologue

Pantomime

Intermezzo

Scherzo (ABACA) (2)

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor RCA CD 5661-2-RC