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MUT6636
Music Theory Seminar: Sonic Design

Listening List

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* PRELUDE on a PRELUDE (it's all about context) *

Frederic Chopin (1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849)

• Prelude Op.28 No.20 in C Minor (1839) (w/score)
  
  

  Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 - 27 July 1924)

• Variations on a Theme of Chopin (1902-1903)
  
  

  Sergei Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 - 28 March 1943)

• Variations and fugue in free form on Chopin's C minor Prelude (1884) (w/score)
  
  

  Barry Manilow (born, Barry Alan Pincus, 17 June 1943)

• Could It Be Magic (1971)
  
  

  Tom Donald

• Chopin Improvisation on C minor Prelude (2015)
  
  

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* LIST NO. 1 *

Sonic Design

J. de Prez

• Missa "L'Homme arme": Benedictus (26:05)
  
  

  W. A. Mozart

• French Suite No. 4 in Eb: Allemande
  
  

  J. S. Bach

• Vesperae Solennes de Confessore "Laudate Dominum"
  
  

  L. Van Beethoven

• Piano Sonata in Eb, Op. 31
  
  

  A. Schoenberg

• Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19, No. 6 (4:29)
  
  

  E. Carter

• Second String Quartet, "Introduction" (4:29)
  
  

Musical Language

M. Mussorgsky

• Pictures at an Exhibition, "The Ancient Castle"
  
  

  F. Chopin

• Mazurka, Op. 56, No. 1
  
  

  C. Debussy

• Syrinx
  
  

  Gregorian Chant

• Veni Creator Spiritus
  
  

  Gregorian Chant

• Kyrie Deus Sempiterne
  
  

  G. de Machaut

• Plus dure que un dyamant (virelai)
  
  

  R. de Lassus

• Bon Jour, Mon Coeur (chanson)
  
  

  J. Brahms

• Wach' Auf, Mein Hort
  
  

  F. Schubert

• Wehmut (ex. 0:54)
  
  

  F. Schubert

• Du bist die ruh
  
  

  B. Bartok

• Crossed Hands from Mikromosmos, Vol. 4 (piano roll)
  
  

  A. Webern

• Three pieces for cello and piano (1:16)
  
  

  A. Webern

• Variations for Piano, Op. 27
  
  

  E. Carter

• First String Quartet, First Movement
  
  

  L. Dallapiccola

• Canti di Liberazione, O frater, frater
  
  

  M. Babbitt

• Du
  
  

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* LIST NO. 2 *

Jazz/Rock/Folk/Fusion Groups Influenced by Non-Western Music - "Ethno Jazz" ... "World Beat"

P. Horn

• Raga Kerwani from Paul Horn in India
  
  

  H. Mann

• Gagaku and Beyond
  
  

  J. "Kaizan" Neptune

• Moments of Magic
  
  

  Oregon

• Witchi-Tai-To
  
  

  D. Brubeck

• Blue Rondo a la Turk
  
  

  D. Brubeck

• Take Five
  
  

  Paul Winter Consort

• Icarus
  
  

  M. Davis

• Bitches Brew
  
  

  M. Davis

• Live-Evil
  
  

  The Beatles

• Within You ,Without You
  
  

  The Beatles

• Tomorrow Never Knows
  
  

  Don Ellis

• Turkish Bath
  
  

  Don Ellis

• Tears of Joy
  
  

  Hindustani Jazz Sextet (with Don Ellis)

• Bombay Bossa Nova
  
  

  J. Coltrane arr.

• My Favorite Things with Sachal Jazz ensemble from Lahore Pakistan and Wynton Marsalis
  
  

  Hiroshima

• Kokoro
  
  

  Milcho Leviev (former of the Don Ellis group and of the Jim Walker led "Free Flight")

• Bulgarian Boogie
  
  

  John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra

• Meeting Of The Spirits/You Know You Know
  
  

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* LIST NO. 3 *

Western Concert Music Influenced by Non-Western Music

B. Britten

• Curlew River
  
  

  B. Britten

• Prince of the Pagodas
  
  

  J. Cage

• Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
  
  

  H. Cowell

• Persian Set
  
  

  H. Cowell

• Concerto for Koto
  
  

  A. Davis

• Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) from Episteme
  
  

  D. Fanshawe

• African Sanctus
  
  

  R. Felciano

• In Celebrations of Golden Rain
  
  

  L. Harrison

• Concerto in Slendro
  
  

  L. Harrison

• Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra (1951/1988)
  
  

  L. Harrison

• Pacifika Rondo (1963)
  
  

  L. Harrison

• Gamelan Music
  
  

  A. Hovhaness

• Upon Enchanted Ground
  
  

  A. Hovhaness

• Fantasy on Japanese Woodblock Prints
  
  

  A. Hovhaness

• Khaldis
  
  

  A. Hovhaness

• Visionary Landscapes (1965)
  
  

  C. McPhee

• Tabuh-Tahuhan, Toccata for Orchestra for orchestra and two pianos
  
  

  O. Messiaen

• Turangalila Symphonie
  
  

  O. Messiaen

• Chronochromie
  
  

  H. Partch

• The Bewitched (1955)
  
  

  S. Reich

• Music for 18 Musicians
  
  

  S. Reich

• Music for Large Ensemble (1978)
  
  

  S. Reich

• Tehillim
  
  

  S. Reich

• Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ (1973)
  
  

  T. Riley

• In C (1968)
  
  

  T. Riley

• Shri Camel (1980)
  
  

  M. Ravel

• Empress of the Pagodas, Mother Goose Suite
  
  

  B. Rogers

• 1. Dance with Pennons, 3 Japanese Dances
  
• 2. Mourning Dance, 3 Japanese Dances
  
• 3.Dance with Swords, 3 Japanese Dances
  
  

  I. Stravinsky

• Le Chant du Rossignol (1917)
  
  

  H. Smith

• Rituals and Incantations
  
  

  E. Varese

• Octandre
  
  

  K. Weill

• Der Jasager
  
  

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- last update 12 January 2020 -