The vocal works: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin words; non-English-language works accompanied by English translations printed as texts.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (page 583).
Part one, Medieval and Renaissance compositions. Introduction -- Examples of plainchant. Kyrie from Mass XIII ; Tone for the Benedicamus Domino ; Hymn to St. John the Baptist ; Hymn for lauds, December 25 ; Antiphon for Vespers, 3rd Sunday of Advent ; Gloria Patri for the introit of the mass -- Orto virtutum : excerpts (morality play) / Hildegard of Bingen -- De bon espoir/Puisque la douce rosee/Speravi : isorhythmic motet / Guillaume de Machaut -- Communio from Missa Sancti Jacobi : fauxbourdon / Guillaume Dufay -- Tu pauperum regium : motet ; Baisés moy : double canon / Josquin Deprez -- Sanctus and Benedictus from Missa Aeterna Christi munera / Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina -- Three duos. 2, Beatus homo ; 5, Expectatio justorum ; 12, Sicut rosa / Roland de Lassus -- Examples of stock basses : late sixteenth century. Pavane passamaize / Claude Gervaise ; Passamezzo and saltarello : dance pair / Jacomo Gorzanis ; Greensleeves -- Now is the month of Maying : ballett / Thomas Morley -- Moro lasso al mio duolo : madrigal / Carlo Gesualdo
Part two, Baroque compositions. Introduction -- Lasciatemi morire : madrigal / Claudio Monteverdi -- Adagio and Allegro : from Violin sonata, opus 5, numbers 1 ; Allemanda : from Trio sonata, opus 4, numbers 11 / Arcangelo Corelli -- Dido's lament : from Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell -- Prelude : from Suite II of Pièces de clavecin / Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre -- Les moissonneurs : from Pièces de clavecin, ordre VI / François Couperin -- Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Four pieces. March ; Minuet ; Aria ; Polonaise -- Concerto grosso in B minor, opus 6, numbers 12 : in score. Largo ; Allegro. Air : from Suite numbers 5 in E major : variations ; Chorus : Wretched lovers : from Acis and Galatea ; Recitative : Thy rebuke hath broken His heart : from Messiah ; Where'er you walk : from Semele / George Frideric Handel -- Gavottes I and II : from English suite numbers 3 in G minor ; Minuets I and II : from Suite numbers 1 in G major for violoncello solo ; Chaconne : from Partita numbers 2 in D minor for violin solo. Two inventions. No. 4 in D minor ; No. 12 in A major ; Preludes and fugues from The well-tempered Klavier. From Book I. Prelude I in C major ; Fugue 11 in F major ; Fugue 16 in G minor ; Fugue 21 in B-flat major ; From Book II. Prelude and fugue 9 in major (with the Fugue in E major of J.K.F. Fischer, circa 1665-1746) ; Contrapunctus VII : from The art of the fugue ; Four canons : from The musical offering ; Crucifixus : from Mass in B minor ; O Gott, du frommer Gott : chorlale variation ; Two chorale preludes. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein ; Vor deinen Tron tret' ich hiermit / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata in D major, K. 96 (Longo 465) / Domenico Scarlatti
Part three, Classical compositions. Introduction -- Piano sonata numbers 36 in C-sharp minor. First movement ; Piano sonata numbers 37 in D major. Third movement ; Piano sonata numbers 3 in C major. Third movement ; String quartet in G minor, opus 74, numbers 3. Second movement ; Symphony numbers 101 in D major. Thrid and fourth movement (in score) / Joseph Haydn -- Sonatina in G major, opus 36, numbers 2. First movement / Muzio Clementi -- Divertimento numbers 14 for wind octet, K. 270. Second movement ; Theme with variations : from Piano sonata in D major, K. 284 ; Piano sonata in B-flat major, K. 333. Allegro ; Andante cantabile ; Allegretto grazioso ; Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 ; The bird-catcher's song : from The magic flute, K. 620 ; Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622. First movement (in score) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Piano sonata numbers 1 in F minor, opus 2, numbers 1. First movement ; Third movement ; Piano sonata numbers 4 in E-flat major, opus 7. Second movement ; Piano sonata numbers 5 in C minor, opus 10, numbers 1. Second movement ; Piano sonata numbers 8 in C minor, opus 13 ("Pathétique"). Grave. Allegro di molto e con brio ; Adagio cantabile ; Allegro ; Piano sonata no. 9 in E major, op. 14, no. 1. Second movement ; Sonata for violin and piano ("Spring"), op. 24. First movement ; Piano sonata no. 15 in D major, op. 28. Third movement ; Piano sonata no. 21 in C major ("Waldstein"), opus 53. First movement ; String quartet in E minor, opus 59, numbers 2. First movement ; String quartet in B-flat major, opus 130. Second movement / Ludwig van Beethoven
Part four, Romantic compositions. Introduction -- Der König in Thule / Carl Friedrich Zelter -- Three Lieder. Nähe des Geliebten ; Der Doppelgänger : Schwanengesang ; Erlkönig ; Two piano pieces. Waltz in A-flat major, opus 9, numbers 2 ; Moment musical numbers 6 : from Sechs Moments musicaux, opus 94 / Franz Schubert -- O Herbst : a cappella chorus / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Song without words : opus 19b, numbers 1 / Felix Mendelssohn -- Seven pieces from Album for the young : opus 68. 1, Melodie = Melody ; 3, Trällerliedchen = Humming song ; 6, Armes Waisenkind = Poor orphan child ; 8, Wilder Reiter = Wild rider ; 14, Kleine Studie = Little etude ; 17, Kleiner Morgenwanderer = Little morning wanderer ; 31, Kriegslied = War song ; Vogel als Prophet : from Waldszenen : opus 82 ; Er, der herrlichste von allen : No. 2 from Frauenliebe und -leben : opus 42 / Robert Schumann -- Six preludes : from opus 28. Prelude numbers 1 in C major ; Prelude numbers 4 in E minor ; Prelude numbers 6 in B minor ; Prelude numbers 9 in E major ; Prelude numbers 19 in E flat major ; Prelude numbers 20 in C minor ; Four mazurkas. Mazurka numbers 5 in B-flat major, opus 7, numbers 1 ; Mazurka numbers 6 in A minor, opus 7, numbers 2 ; Mazurka numbers 37 in A-flat major, opus 59, numbers 2 ; Mazurka numbers 49 in F minor, opus posthumous 68, numbers 4 ; Nocturne in D-flat major, opus 27, numbers 2 / Fréderic Chopin -- Prelude to Act I : from Tristan and Isolde / Richard Wagner -- Andante espressivo. No. 3 of Quatre pièces fugitives : opus 15 / Clara Schumann -- Moderato : from Chorale numbers 1 in E major for organ / César Franck -- Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann (excerpt) : opus 9 ; Wie Melodien zieht es mir : opus 105, numbers 1 ; Three intermezzos. Intermezzo in A minor, opus 76, numbers 7 ; Intermezzo in A major, opus 118, numbers 2 ; Intermezzo in C major, opus 119, numbers 3 ; Sonata in F minor for clarinet and piano, opus 120, numbers 1. First movement / Johannes Brahms -- Two songs. Das verlassene Mägdlein ; In der Frühe / Hugo Wolf -- Adagietto : from Symphony 5 (score) / Gustav Mahler -- Dark is the night. No. 1 of Three songs, opus 11 / Amy Beach
Part five, Since Debussy. Introduction -- Prélude à L'après-midi d'un faune ; La cathédrale engloutie : from Preludes, book I / Claude Debussy -- No. 1 of Three piano pieces, opus 11 ; Summer morning by a lake (colors). No. 3 of Five pieces for orchestra, opus 16 ; Piano piece, opus 33a / Arnold Schoenberg -- Two songs. The cage ; General William Booth enters into heaven / Charles Ives -- Le martin-pêcheur. No. 4 from Histoires naturelles / Maurice Ravel -- Three pieces from Mikrokosmos. Bulgarian rhapsody ; Syncopation ; Diminished fift ; Music for string instruments, percussion, and celesta. First movement (score) / Béla Bartók -- Le sacre du printemps. Introduction to Part II ; Theme and variations A, B, and C : from Octet for wind instruments. Second movement ; Full fadom five. No. 2 of Three songs from William Shakespeare ; Pas-de-quatre and coda : From Agon / Igor Stravinsky -- Five movements for string quartet, opus 5. Fourth movement ; Wie bin ich froh! : No. 1 of Drei Lieder, opus 25 ; Variations for piano, opus 27. Second movement / Anton Webern -- Schlafend trägt man mich : from Vier Lieder, opus 2 / Alban Berg -- A swan : from Six chansons ; Fuga prima in C : from Ludus tonalis / Paul Hindemith -- Suite for violoncello solo, opus 84. First movement / Ernst Krenek -- String quartet 1931. Third movement / Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Simbolo. No. 1 from Quaderno musciale di Annalibera / Luigi Dallapiccola -- Liturgie de cristal. First movement of Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Olivier Messiaen -- Canaries. No. 7 from Eight pieces for four timpani / Elliot Carter -- For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks / John Cage -- Three-score set. Second movement / William Schuman -- Play on notes : for children's voices and bells ; Semi-simple variations / Milton Babbitt -- No. 1 of Ten pieces for wind quintet / György Ligeti -- ¿Por qué nací entre espejos? No. 1 of Madrigals, book IV / George Crumb -- Autumn. First movement of Ropcking mirror daybreak for violin duo / Toru Takemitsu -- In C / Terry Riley -- Clapping music : for two performers / Steve Reich -- Psalm 13 : from Four psalm settings / Bruce Saylor -- This is prophetic : from Nixon in China / John Adams
Appendix A, Two jazz forms : blues and rhythm changes. Introduction -- The blues form -- West end blues / by Joseph "King" Oliver and Clarence Williams -- Louis Armstrong's improvisation on West end blues, Blues / transcribed by H. David Caffey -- I got rhythm. Refrain / by George and Ira Gershwin -- Anthropology / by Charles Parker and John "Dizzy" Gillespie. Bars 1-8 / arranged by Gil Fuller ; The complete tune / arranged by Frank Paparelli ; Charlie Parker's improvisation on Anthropology : Thriving on a riff / transcribed by Henry Martin
Appendix B, Mostly chorale harmonizations / by J.S. Bach unless otherwise stated. Introduction -- Ach Gott und Herr. Christoph Peter : figured bass ; J.S. Bach ; J.S. Bach -- Ach, wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig -- Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir. Hans Leo Hassler ; J.S. Bach -- Awake, awake, good people all / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Christ lag in Todesbanden -- Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Hans Leo Hassler ; J.S. Bach -- Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist. J.S. Bach ; J.S. Bach -- Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen / Michael Praetorius -- Freuet euch, ihr Christen alle -- Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir. Michael Praetorius ; J.S. Bach -- Herzliebster Jesu. Johann Crüger : figured bass ; J.S. Bach -- Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein : figured bass -- Jesu, meine Freude -- Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist -- O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden. Mein Gmüth ist mir verwirret / Hans Leo Hassler ; J.S. Bach -- O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross -- O Welt, ich muss dich lassen. Isbruck, ich muss dich lassen / Heinrich Isaac ; J.S. Bach -- So gehst du nun, mein Jesu hin : figured bass -- So gibst du nun, mein Jesu, gute Nacht : figured bass -- Valet will ich dir geben -- Wach' auf! : from Die Meistersinger / Richard Wagner -- Wir Christenleut. Johann Hermann Schein : figured bass ; J.S. Bach
A note on the the sources -- Translations of foreign terms -- Complete short pieces suitable for first- and second-year courses -- Index I. General index -- Index II. Index of chords, sequences, and modulations