Discovering Music Listening Guide – 17

Required Works

Johannes Brahms

Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79, No. 2 (1879)
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Wiegenlied (Cradle Song), Op. 49, No. 4 (1868)
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Claude Debussy

Claire de lune from Suite Bergamasque (1890)
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Gustav Mahler

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I have lost touch with the world) (1902)
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Giacomo Puccini

“Nessun dorma” from Turandot (left incomplete in 1924)
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Richard Strauss

Don Quixote (or “Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character), Op. 35 (1897)
Thema – Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance
Variation 2 – Kriegerish
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*Variation 2 begins at 12:23.


Ralph Vaughan Williams

“The Call” (from Five Mystical Songs)
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Suggested Works

Béla Bartók

Allegro barbaro for piano, Sz. 49 (1911)
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15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano, Sz. 71 (1918)
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Johannes Brahms

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 (1876)
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Horn Trio in E-Flat major, Op. 40 (1865)
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Claude Debussy

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Prélude á l’aprés-midi d’un faune) (1891)
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La Mer (The Sea), Three Symphonic Sketches (1905)
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W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Mikado (1885)
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Pirates of Penzance (1879)
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Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 1 in D major (“Titan”) (1889)
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Giacomo Puccini

La Bohème (1896)
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Madame Butterfly (1900)
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Tosca (1904)
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Arnold Schoenberg

Overture to Gurrelieder
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Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899)
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Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
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Richard Strauss

Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome (1905)
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Trio from Act III (“Marie Theres’! Hab’ mir’s gelobt”), Der Rosenkavalier (1911)
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Igor Stravinsky

Feu d’artifice (Fireworks, tone poem) (1909)
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Petrushka (ballet) (1911)
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Rite of Spring (1913)
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