"For use with Norton anthology of Western music, sixth edition (Burkholder/Palisca, eds.), and A history of Western music, eighth edition (Burkholder/Grout/Palisca)"--Container
Vocal selections sung in various languages.
CD 12. Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin -- Nocturnes, no. 1, Nuages (7:02) / Claude Debussy -- Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5 (4:02) / Sergei Rachmaninov -- Vers la flamme, op. 72 (5:29) / Alexander Scriabin -- Embryons desséchés, no. 3, de Podophthalma (1:28) / Erik Satie -- Pierrot lunaire, op. 21, excerpts (5:00) ; Piano suite, op. 25, excerpts (6:00) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Wozzeck, op. 7, Act III, scene 3 (2:55) / Alban Berg -- Symphony, op. 21, I (5:29) / Anton Webern -- The rite of Spring, excerpts. Danse des adolescentes (3:16) ; Danse sacrale (4:03) ; Symphony of Psalms, I (3:23) / Igor Stravinsky -- Mikrokosmos, no. 123, Staccato and legato (:59) ; Music for strings, percussion and celesta, III (7:43) / B́éla Bartók -- General William Booth enters into Heaven (5:47) / Charles Ives -- I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy (3:00) / George Gershwin -- Back water blues (3:20) / Bessie Smith -- West End blues (3:21) / King Oliver
CD 13. Cotton tail (3:16) / Duke Ellington -- La cŕeation du monde, op. 81a, first tableau (1:43) / Darius Milhaud -- Symphony Mathis der Maler, II, Grablegung (4:46) / Paul Hindemith -- Alexander Nevsky, op. 78, IV, Arise, ye Russian people (1:58) / Sergey Prokofiev -- Symphony no. 5, op. 47, II (5:23) / Dmitri Shostakovich -- Sensemaýa (5:46) / Silvestre Revueltas -- Hyperprism (3:46) / Edgard Varèse -- The banshee (2:33) / Henry Cowell -- String quartet 1931, IV (1:59) / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Appalachian Spring, excerpt : Variations on 'Tis the gift to be simple (8:29) / Aaron Copland -- Afro-American symphony, I (6:13) / William Grant Still -- Anthropology (5:00) / Dizzy Gillespie -- Quartet for the end of time, I, Liturgie de cristal (2:39) / Olivier Messiaen -- Peter Grimes. Act III, scene 2, To Hell with all your mercy! (8:42) / Benjamin Britten -- Hermit songs, op. 29, no. 8, The monk and his cat (2:38) / Samuel Barber -- Sonatas and interludes, Sonata V (1:29) ; Music of changes, Book I (5:30) / John Cage -- Projection I (2:53) / Morton Feldman -- Kreuzspiel, pt. I (3:09) / Karlheinz Stockhausen
CD 14. Le marteau sans mâitre, VI, Bourreaux de solitude (4:23) / Pierre Boulez -- Sequenza III for female voice (7:34) / Luciano Berio -- Black angels, thirteen images from the dark land, Images 4 and 5 (3:00) / George Crumb -- Philomel, section I (4:45) / Milton Babbitt -- Threnody: to the victims of Hiroshima (8:54) / Krzysztof Penderecki -- Music for Prague 1968, I. Introduction and fanfare (6:20) / Karel Husa -- Tehillim, part IV (6:01) / Steve Reich -- Short ride in a fast machine (4:04) / John Adams -- Étude, no. 9, Vertige (2:56) / Gÿorgy Ligeti -- Symphony no. 1, I (7:01) / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Seven magnificat antiphons, excerpts (4:00) / Arvo P̈ärt -- Rejoice! Sonata for violin and violoncello, V, Listen to the still small voice within (5:32) / Sofia Gubaidulina -- Concerto grosso no. 1, II Toccata (4:46) / Alfred Schnittke -- Dead Elvis (8:18) / Michael Daugherty -- Seven tunes heard in China, no. 1, Seasons (1:30) / Bright Sheng