PrefaceHow to Follow the Highlighted Scores A Note on the Recordings Romantic Song: 1. Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Erlkönig (Elfking), D. 3282. Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), No. 1: "Im wunderschönen Monat Mai" ("In the lovely month of May")3. Stephen Foster (1826-1864), Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Parlor songRomantic Piano Music and Chamber Music: 4. Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849), Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24, No.
4 5. Franz Liszt (1811-1886), La campanella (The Little Bell), from Transcendental Etudes after Paganini, No. 36. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847), September: At the River, from Das Jahr (The Year)7. Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), Le banjo (The Banjo), Fantasie grotesque8. Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Piano Trio in G minor, Third movementRomantic Program Music: 9. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Symphonie fantastique10. Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Vltava (The Moldau), from Má vlast (My Country)11.
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1, Op. 46Romantic Symphony and Concerto: 12. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Symphony No. 3 in F major, Third movement13. Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World), First movement14. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.
64, First movementRomantic Stage Works: 15. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Rigoletto, Act III16. Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Die Walküre, Act III17. Georges Bizet, (1838-1875), Carmen, Act I18. Verdi, Requiem, Libera me, excerpt19. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), The Nutcracker, Three Dances20. Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Madama Butterfly, Act II, "Un bel dì" ("One fine day")Post-Romanticism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism: 21. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Third movement, Von der Jugend (Of Youth)22.
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune" (Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun")23. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Don Quixote to Dulcinea)Early Twentieth-Century Modernists: 24. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Part I25. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Pierrot lunaire, Op. 2126. Alban Berg (1885-1935), Wozzeck, Act III27. Anton Webern (1883-1945), Symphony, Op. 21, Second movementEuropean National Schools: 28.
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Concerto for Orchestra, Fourth movement, Interrupted Intermezzo29. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Lieutenant Kijé Suite, No. 4, Troika30. Carl Orff (1895-1982), Carmina burana, O fortuna31. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), Second movement, Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps (Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the End of Time)American Nationalism: 32. Charles Ives (1874-1954), Country Band March33. Ruth Crawford (1901-1953), Piano Prelude No. 634.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Appalachian Spring Suite35. Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca), Third movement, SonRagtime, Blues, and Jazz: 36. Scott Joplin (1868-1917), Maple Leaf Rag37. Billie Holiday (1915-1959), Billie's Blues38. Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) / Duke Ellington (1899-1974), Take the A Train39. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) / Charlie Parker (1920-1955), A Night in TunisiaMusical Theater: 40. George Gershwin (1898-1937), Summertime, from Porgy and Bess41. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), West Side StoryPost-World War II to the Present: 42.
John Cage (1912-1992), Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata V43. Pierre Boulez (b. 1925), Notations IV, opening44. George Crumb (b. 1929), Madrigals, Book II, Caballito negro (Little Black Horse)45. György Ligeti (1923-2006), Désordre (Disorder), from Etudes pour Piano, Book I46. Bright Sheng (b. 1955), China Dreams, Prelude47.
Tod Machover (b. 1952), Hyperstring Trilogy: Begin Again Again .