Listening Exams

B

		Listening examination - 2nd year - short pieces taken from Norton / Anthology of Western Music 3rd edition

no.	Composer	Work (selections)	Norton Example No.
1	John Dunstable	Motet: Quam pulchra es	26
2	John Dowland	Air: Flow my tears	45
3	Carlo Gesualdo	Madrigal: "Io Parto: e non più dissi"	40
4	Orland di Lasso	Motet: Tristis est anima mea	51
5	Jean Baptiste Lully	Armide: a) Overture b) Act II Scene 5: "Enfin il est un ma puissance"	70
6	Bach	Prelude et Fugue in A minor BWV 543	81
7	Bach	Mass in B minor BWV 232: Credo: a) Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum b) Confiteor c) Et expecto resurrectionem	84
8	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	La Serva Padrona: "Ah, quanto mi sta male" ... "Son inbrogliato io"	87
9	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	Sonata in A major, H 186 wg 55/4: Poco Adagio (2nd mvt)	94
10	Haydn	Symphony No. 56 in C major: Allegro di molto (1st mvt)	97
11	Muzio Clementi	Sonata in G minor op. 34 No. 2: Largo Sostenuto e Allegro con fuoco (1st mvt)	105
12	Beethoven	String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 a) Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo (1st mvt) b) Allegro molto vivace (2nd mvt)	107
13	Mendelssohn	A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo	109
14	Brahms	Piano Quintet in F minor op. 34: Scherzo (3rd mvt)	114
15	Schumann	Dichterliebe: No. 1: "Im wunderschönen Monat Mai" No. 7: "Ich Grolle Nicht"	117



		2nd year: List of music pieces for identification

no.	Composer	Work	Movements
1	Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major
2	Bach	Cantata No. 106 Actus Tragius
3	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major op. 73, Emperor
4	Brahms	Symphony No. 3 op 90 in F major
5	Bruckner	Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major The Romantic
6	Hummel	Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
7	Mozart	Clarinet Quintet in A major K. 581
8	Beethoven	Symphony No. 4 op. 60 in B-flat major
9	Debussy	Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
10	Brahms	Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major op. 83
11	Prokofiev	Symphony No. 5 op. 100 in B-flat major
12	Haydn	Symphony No. 100 in G major The Military
13	Schoenberg	A Surviver from Warsaw (1946)
14	Mozart	Symphony No. 41 in C major K 551 Jupiter
15	Schubert	Piano Trio No. 1 op. 99 in B-flat major
16	A. Dvořák	Violoncello Concerto in B minor op. 104
17	W .A. Mozart	Mass in C minor K.427	1. Kyrie 2. Gloria in excelsis Deo 7. Quoniam 10. Et incarnatus est
18	Beethoven	"Choral Fantasy" in C minor op. 80
19	Chopin	Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor op. 21
20	Lutosłavsky	Concerto for Orchestra
21	Verdi	La Traviata	Act I: 3. Drinking Song: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" 6. Recitative and Air: "È strano! … Ah, fors' è lui ... Sempre libera" Act II: 7. Recitative and Air: "De' miei bollenti spiriti" Act III: 16. Recitative and Aria: "Addio del passato"
22	Johann Strauß Jr.	Die Fledermaus	Overture Act I: 4. "So muss allein ich bleiben" Act II: 8. Ensemble & Couplet (Adele) 10. Csardas: "Klänge der Heimath"
23	Hindemith	Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Der Schwanendreher
24	Boscovich	Semitic Suite for orchestra (1946)
25	Haydn	Piano Sonata in E minor Hol. 34
26	George Frideric Handel	Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar)	Act I no. 27 CESARE. Aria. "Va tacito e nascosto, quand' avido" Act II no. 6 CLEOPATRA. Aria. "V'adoro, pupille, saette d'Amore" Act III no. 7 CLEOPATRA. Aria. "Piangerò la sorte mia, si crudele"
27	L. v. Beethoven	Missa solemnis	(complete)
28	J. Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Act II: Couplets: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" (Olympia) Act III: Romance: "Elle a fui, la tourterelle" (Antonia) Couplets: "Jour et nuit je me mets en catre" Trio: "Tu ne chanteras plus?" (Miracle, Antonia, Une Voix) Act IV: Entr'acte et Barcarolle: "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Nicklausse, Giulietta, Chœur)
29	P.I. Tchaikovsky	Romeo and Juliet
30	M. Ravel	Piano Trio in A minor