The following links may be used to supplement the recordings included in the Music Listening Today textbook. Of special interest are the various Youtube videos of live performances by some of the world's top groups and conductors, as well as choreographed ballets and fully staged operas. Every effort has been made to find the best freely available example of each piece.  

 

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The recordings are broken down by Chapter and page number in Music Listening Today, although they are different recordings from those included with the textbook.

 

Chapter 1

p. 7: Aaron Copland, “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajQYANLiug

p. 9: John Rutter, “Open Thou Mine Eyes” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6m52JUbfnk

 

Chapter 2

p. 16: Georges Bizet, Farandole from L’Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNScAdFSak4

p. 17: African music, “Mitamba Yalagala Kumchuzi” - http://contentpro.seals.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1017713 (this is just audio and ends before the vocals come in)

 

Chapter 3

p. 22: Aaron Copland, “Simple Gifts” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e23CPt3tPTQ

p. 27: Georges Bizet, Farandole from L’Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNScAdFSak4

 

Chapter 4

p. 34: Joaquin Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez, 2^nd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6C-Q1Y_xcs

 

Chapter 5

p. 45: Benjamin Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM (variations at 2:00, fugue at 14:10)

 

Chapter 6

p. 51: Franz Biebl, “Ave Maria” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVyCJlPiHFg (skips 2^nd repeat of Ave Maria choral section)

p. 53: Soweto Gospel Choir, “Hohonolofatsa” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTTbCMHER4

 

Chapter 7

p. 68: “Dies irae” opening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsn9LWh230k

p. 69: Hildegard de Bingen, Ordo virtutum, excerpt from scene 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZe3_94mqE8 (stop around 3:23)

 

Chapter 8

p. 74: Pérotin, “Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia” - unable to find suitable example

p. 76: Guillaume de Machaut, “Quant en moi” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJiFXlvxqQ (verse 2 starts at 0:33, ends around 1:05)

p. 78: Beatrix de Dia, “A chantar” (excerpt) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Chantar2.ogg, more ornamented version – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zah4VWPiNE

p. 79: Anonymous, Estampie - unable to find suitable example

 

Chapter 9

p. 86: Josquin Des Prez, Kyrie from Pange lingua Mass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8GPdKttGw

p. 88: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, “Sicut cervus,” Part I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd5EE0hAB8

p. 91: Thomas Weelkes, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H3UA4t0zLs

 

Chapter 10

George Frideric Handel, Messiah:

p. 104: “The Voice of Him that Crieth in the Wilderness” -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKx66fEtQg

 

Chapter 11

Messiah (cont'd):

p. 109: “Ev’ry Valley Shall Be Exalted” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCO6UzZ2R8

p. 112: “Hallelujah Chorus” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZEtVbJT5c

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No. 140:

p. 115: Chorale (Section 7) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvg7xbRoCs0

p. 117: “Zion Hears the Watchmen” (Section 4) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z34O7NPznLc

 

Chapter 12

p. 124: Claudio Monteverdi, Recitative from The Coronation of Poppea, Act I, Scene 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMOvpQsHhZw (stop at 1:28)

p. 126: Henry Purcell, “Dido’s Lament” from Dido and Aeneas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8A0g_jYyA (recitative, then aria starts around 1:25)

 

Chapter 13

p. 130: Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0

p. 132: George Frideric Handel, “Hornpipe” from Water Music Suite No. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUuSi64KFYQ

p. 133: Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata in F, Op. 3, No. 1, 2^nd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03zBfuOvcQ&list=PLEF7BD1062FE87E0D&index=1 (2^nd movement starts at 2:09)

 

Chapter 14

p. 137: Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6-x9sdEYo

p. 139: Antonio Vivaldi, “Spring” from the Four Seasons, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nSvIiBNFo

p. 142: Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnuq9PXbywA

 

Chapter 16

p. 160: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adNdFrcAyQ8

 

Chapter 17

p. 166: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21, 2^nd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRCEwy5XQSs

p. 168 Franz Joseph Haydn, Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat, 3^rd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-qf1blogAg

 

Chapter 18

p. 173: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, excerpt from Act II, Scene 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYjqz7nToY (Full opera, start at 2:39:42-end for this scene)

 

Chapter 19

p. 181: Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, “Emperor,” 3^rd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9M5W1qSqe0

p. 183: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A Major, 4^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWxu5fd56g

 

Chapter 20

p. 187: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331, 3^rd movement, “Rondo alla Turca” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQh1zztmpEk

p. 191: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”), 3^rd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpSqC86vaw

 

Chapter 21

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Major:

p. 194: 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXrV_y03c0o

p. 197: 2^nd movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXK7EJaC1w

p. 199-200: 3^rd and 4^th movements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbyBINYBfo (3^rd begins the video, 4^th starts at 4:42)

 

Chapter 23

p. 215: Franz Schubert, “Der Erlkönig” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI

p. 218: Felix Mendelssohn, Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dBg__wsuo (stop at 13:20)

 

Chapter 24

p. 223: Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMgSwcgaRE

p. 227: Franz Liszt, La Campanella - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbQZCsYXVg

p. 229: Clara Schumann, Scherzo, Op. 10 in D minor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5G0imFdEB4

 

Chapter 25

p. 238: Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14, 5^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cao6WyF-61s

p. 241: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, “Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSq69IiFaU (theme starts earlier than in book – around 0:42)

 

Chapter 26

p. 245: Giuseppe Verdi, “La Donna è mobile” from Rigoletto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg

p. 248: Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème, Act I (excerpt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkHGUaB1Bs8

p. 252: Richard Wagner, Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8njyLeEfuQ

 

Chapter 27

p. 258: Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E minor, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ32I-o58NU

p. 262: Antonin Dvořák, American Quartet, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-kbAydcwk (stop at 7:00)

p. 265: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, 4^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHj-eekdNU

 

Chapter 28

p. 269: Modest Mussorgsky, Coronation scene from Boris Godunov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70RIWenSlns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEBq-gsdI58 (English subtitles)

p. 272: Bedrich Smetana, The Moldau from Má Vlast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5jCAelYsR0

 

Chapter 30

p. 288 Claude Debussy, “Clair de lune” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkl6WbKOVKw

p. 290 Maurice Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2, “Lever du jour” (“Daybreak”) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfu-5RO278

p. 293: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (excerpt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAu6BRWL8p8 (theme goes from 0:58-1:16, variation 18 starts at 14:50)

 

Chapter 31

p. 296: Bela Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, 4^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NNxPYtNESs

p. 298: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIrMJ_ix0FA

p. 301: Benjamin Britten, Dies irae from War Requiem, excerpt from beginning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p3jNMCbaK0 (stop at 4:00)

 

Chapter 32

p. 306: Alban Berg, Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=702knK1mop0

p. 310: Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, excerpts from Act I -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1OQkHybEQ (Dance of the Adolescents 3:00-6:15, Dance of Abduction 6:15-8:00)

 

Chapter 33

p. 316: Sergei Prokofiev, Classical Symphony, Op. 25, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQEvI9bqEE   

p. 318: Paul Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser, Op. 24, No. 2, 5^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLjqK638I0 (start at 1:04)

p. 321: Arnold Schoenberg, Variations for Orchestra (excerpt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHUxoa1DDs (2:23-3:23)

p. 323: Anton Webern, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10, Third Piece - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHaXzepe6A

 

Chapter 34

p. 330: Edgard Varèse, Poème électronique, beginning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqxMgC7C3po (stop at 2:41)

p. 331: Alan Hovhaness, And God Created Great Whales - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Too2tqNZAVc (stop at 5:29)

 

Chapter 35

p. 344: John Philip Sousa, “The Stars and Stripes Forever” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-7XWhyvIpE (start at 0:55)

p. 347: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 2, 5^th movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlUQRNRFEkQ (start at 2:35)

 

Chapter 36

p. 352: Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring, section 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y-NEdTj-g (0:14-3:00)

p. 353: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Concerto Grosso 1985, 1^st movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIIHmrtvFA

p. 355: John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LoUm_r7It8

 

Chapter 37

p. 361: Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_dI6BZt06U#t=29

p. 363: Bessie Smith, “Lost Your Head Blues” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIPa9T8iYZA

p. 366: Louis Armstrong, “Come Back, Sweet Papa” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUmFpt9kXFk

p. 368: Duke Ellington, “Take the ‘A’ Train” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mFGy4g_n8

 

Chapter 38

p. 382: Dave Brubeck, “Blue Rondo A la Turk” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlVasHbipo (just audio, stop at 3:52), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GgmGLPbWU (live version with video, does not follow structure as exactly, stop at 3:37)

 

Chapter 39

p. 386: Leonard Bernstein, “Tonight” (Quintet) from West Side Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV3hIL-G0

p. 389: George Gershwin, “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgSH4A-V9HQ

p. 393: Bernard Hermann, Psycho - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6LVNB-S_4 (“Prelude”: beginning – 1:54, “The Murder”: 4:08 – end)

 

Chapter 41

p. 407: English Ballad, “Barbara Allen” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3nJZlZrsU (more American-ized, but most Youtube videos of this song start with 2^nd verse)

p. 415: Mexican Folk Song, “Sones de Haustaca” - unable to find a suitable example