Music Listening Page
Stylistic Periods of Music History
Medieval - prior to 1420
Renaissance - 1420-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750
Classical - 1750-1800
Romantic - 1800-1900
20th Century - 1900-2000
Contemporary - 2000-present
Music Listening
Grade 5 selections:
Quiz One:
Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Concerto de Aranjuez - for guitar (Rodrigo)
My Lord of Oxenford's Maske (Morley)
Golliwog's Cakewalk from Children's Corner (Debussy)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro (W. A. Mozart)
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco m'invitasti, from Don Giovanni (W. A. Mozart)
Overture from Candide (Bernstein)
Quiz Two:
Russian Dance from Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
Wedding Chorus from Lohengrin (Wagner)
Quiz Three:
Song of Peace from Symphony 1997 (Tan Dun)
Ose Shalom (traditional Hebrew, arr. Leavitt)
Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Morning from Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg)
Pomp and Circumstance March (Elgar)
Some nice extras:
Bist du Bei Mir
America the Beautiful
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
"Night Club" from Harlem Symphony (1932) (Johnson)
First movement from Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
Chamber Music for Winds, Op. 24 No. 2 (Hindemith)
Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (C. M. Widor)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor, first movement (Mendelssohn)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (J. S. Bach)
Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore (Verdi)
Excerpt from Rhapsodie in Blue (Gershwin)
Fanfare for the Common Man (Copland)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa)
Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Batti, batti, o bel Masetto, from Don Giovanni (W. A. Mozart)