Listening Exams

Listening examination - 4th year - short pieces taken from Norton / Anthology of Western Music 3rd edition

no.

Composer

Work (selections)

Norton Example No.

1

Victoria

O Magnum Mysterium
a) Motet O Magnum Mysterium
b) Mass O Magnum Mysterium: Kyrie

50

2

Froberger

Lamantation faite sur la mort tres douloureuse de sa Majésté Imperiale Ferdinand le 3ème et se joue lentement avec discretion

67

3

Corelli

Trio Sonata op. 3 no. 2

77

4

John Field

Nocturne in A major no. 8

111

5

Chopin

Nocturne in E-flat major op. 9/2

112

6

Bellini

Norma, act  1, Scene 4: "Casta diva"

121

7

Verdi

Il Trovatore, Act 4, Scene 1 no. 12 - Scene-Aria-Miserere

122

8

Wagner

Tristan und Isolde, Act 1, Scene 5 (excerpt)

124

9

Mahler

Kindertotenlieder, no. 1: "Nun will die sonn' so hell aufgehen"

126

10

Ravel

Le Tombeau de Couperin - Menuet

132

11

Gubaidulina

Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Violoncello - (5th mvt)

134

12

Hindemith

Mathis der Maler: Sechstes Bild (6th Scene)

136

13

Stravinsky

Le sacre du Printemps: Danse des adolescentes

137

14

Schoenberg

Variationen für Orchester, op. 31
a) Theme
b) Variation VI

139

15

Berg

Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 3

140

16

Shostakovich

Lady Mackbéth of the Mtsensk District, op. 29, Act IV, Scene 9 (excerpt)

135

4th year: List of music pieces for identification

no.

Composer

Work

Movements

1

G. Fauré

Requiem

(complete)

2

Mozart

Piano concerto no. 24 in C minor K 491

3

Shostakovich

Symphony no. 9 in E-flat major op. 70

4

Schubert

Symphony no. 9 in C major The Great

5

Mahler

Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor

6

W.A. Mozart

Die Zauberflöte

Overture
3. Aria (Tamino)
4. Aria (Queen of Night)
5. Quintet
17. Aria (Pamina)
20. Aria (Papageno)
21. Finale

7

Schumann

Violoncello Concerto in A minor op. 129

8

Debussy

7 Preludes

Book I:
5. Les collines d'Anacapri
6. Des pas sur la neige
8. La fille aux cheveux de lin
10. La cathédrale engloutie
12. Minstrels
Book II:
3. La puerta del Vino
12. Feux d'artifice

9

Brahms

String Sextet in B-flat major op. 18

10

Partós

Izkor for Viola and Orchestra (1946)

11

Manuel de Fallia

La Vida Breve

Act 2

12

Beethoven

Piano Sonata no. 31 op. 110 in A-flat major

13

Bartók

Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

14

Poulenc

Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano

15

Verdi

Requiem

Requiem
Dies irae
Libera me

16

Wagner

Tannhäuser

Overture

17

Stravinsky

Les Noces

18

Berg

Lulu Suite (1934)

(all 5 movements)

19

Ligeti

Atmospheres

20

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin

Act 1, Scene 2 ("Letter Scene")
Act 2, Scene 2: Introduction and Aria (Lenski)
Act 3, Scene 1, Aria (Gremin)
Act 3, Scene 2 (Finale)

21

Verdi

Aida

Act 1

22

Mozart

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat major K.364

23

Donizetti

Lucia di Lamermoor

Act 3

24

Handel

Messiah

1. Overture
2. "Comfort ye"
3. "Every valley"
9. "O thou that tellest"
10. "For behold"
11. "The people that walked"
20. "He shall feed his flock"
44. "Hallelujah!"

25

G. Bizet

Carmen

10. Segedille
12. Bohême
17. Duo (from beginning until and including Don Jose's aria)
20. Trio
22. Air (Micaëla)

26

Khachaturian

Piano Concerto (1936)

27

Schoenberg

Pelléas and Melisande op. 5

28

Glinka

Trio Pathetique for Clarinet, Bassoon (Violoncello) and Piano

29

K. Szymanowski

Stabat Mater 

1. Stała Matka bolejąca (Stabat mater dolorosa)

30

G. Mahler

Das Lied von der Erde

(complete)