In this class we will explore music from these categories: Western European Tradition, Popular Music, and World Music. For a brief introduction to each particular style of music, click on the desired link to play it's music clip.

You can also learn more by exploring the listening charts and summaries at MacGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Western European Tradition

Early

• In Paradisum (anonymous)
• Gloria from Pange Lingua Mass by Josquin Desprez (ca. 1440-1521)
• Alleluia: Nativitas by Perotin
• Kemp's Jig (anonymous)

Baroque

• Fugue in C-Sharp Major, by J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Concerto in G "La Straviganza" (Mvt. 3) by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
• Allegro from Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D Major by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
  

Classical

• Symphony No. 40, G Minor, K. 550 (Mvt. 1) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  (1756-1791)
• Symphony No. 88, G Major Mvt. 2 by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
• Symphony No. 1, C Major, Mvt. 3, Minuetto, by Ludwig Van Beethoven
  (1770-1827)
  

Romantic

• Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Mvt. 4, March to the Scaffold) by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
• Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
• Prelude to Tristan and Isolde by Rchard Wagner (1813-1883)

Atonal

• Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
• Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (Third Piece) by Arnold Schoenberg
  (1874-1951)
• Concerto for Orchestra (Mvt. 2) by Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
• Second Orchestral Set by Charles Ives (1874-1954)
  

Jazz

BeBop

• Charlie Parker, Donna Lee

Cool Jazz

• Miles Davis, Blue in Green, from Kind of Blue

Free Jazz

• John Coltrane, Offering, from Impulse CD, A John Coltrane Retrospective
• Cecil Taylor, Improvisation

Swing

• Billy Strayhorn, Take the A Train, from Legends of Jazz CD Duke Ellington
• Duke Ellington/Strayhorn, Smada

World Music