Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest 2004-05

Authored by K. Christian McGuire

Medieval and Renaissance Music
Magister Leoninus, Viderunt Omnes
Perotin, Viderunt Omnes
The Carmina Buruna, Olim Sudor Herculis
Philippe de Vitry, Tribum que/Quoniam secta/Merito hec patimur
Tomas Luis de Victoria, O Magnum Mysterium
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Missa O Magnum Mysterium

Baroque Period (1600-1750)
Girolamo Frescobaldi - Toccata No. 3
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Canzona
Girolamo Frescobaldi – Passacaglia
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Overture from Armide
Francois Couperin, Les Moissonneurs (The Field Workers)
Francois Couperin Les Langueurs-Tendres (The Languishers)
Francois Couperin La Bersan

Classical Period (1750-1820)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Mozart - Piano Concerto in Eb K.482
Mozart – Terzetto No. 7 from The Marriage of Figaro
Haydn - Symphony No. 101 in D major (‘The Clock’) Hob. I/101

19th Century
Hector Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique
Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade

20 Century
Example of Eastern European folk music
Bela Bartok - 4th String Quartet
Igor Stravinksy - Concerto for Piano and Winds
Aaron Jay Kernis - Musica Celestes from String Quartet no. 1

Featured Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1751)
Cantata - Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61 (1714)
Brandenberg Concerto 4 BWV 1049 (1720)
Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1004 (1720)
B Minor Mass BWV 232 (1733)
Musical Offering BWV 1079 (1747)

Featured Genre: Fugues and Canons
J.S. Bach - Fugue No. 2 in C minor from WTC
Beethoven - Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Charles Ives – 3rd Movement from the 4th Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg - Der Mondfleck from Pierrot lunaire
Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde
Paul Hindemith – Fuga in C from Ludus Tonalis

Featured Influence: The Blues and its Heirs
Work Song - Rosie
B.B. King – It’s My Own Fault Baby
George Gershwin - "It Ain’t Necessarily So", from Porgy and Bess
Charles Mingus - The Work Song
Theme for Lester Young (a.k.a. Goodbye Porkpie Hat)
The Beatles - I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
The Who - My Generation