Senior Listening Exam

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

• Sonata, op. 5, no. 12, in D minor, “La Folia” (1700)

 

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

• Hippolyte et Aricie (1733): Prologue and Act I:
  • Overture
  • Scene 1
  • Scene 2
  • Scene 3
  • Scene 4
  • Scene 5
  • Scene 6
  • Scene 7
  • Scene 8

 

Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)

• Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (1749)
  • Kyrie:
    • Chorus: Kyrie eleison
    • Duet: Christe eleison
    • Chorus: Kyrie eleison
  • Credo:
    • Crucifixus
    • Et resurrexit
  • Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (1713)
    • Sinfonia
    • Chorus: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in meinem Herzen
    • Aria: Seufzer, Tranen, Kummer, Not
    • Aria: Erfreue dich, Seele, erfreue dich, Herze
    • Chorus: Das Lamm, das erwürget ist

 

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

• Essercisi (1754):
  • Sonata in E: Andante comodo (K. 380)
  • Sonana in E: Allegro (K. 381)

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• Viola Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (1787):I, II III, IV

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Symphony no. 7 in A, op. 92 (1812): I, II, III, IV
• String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 (1826): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
• Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 – Emperor (1811):
  • Allegro
  • Adagio un poco moto
  • Rondo: Allegro

 

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• String Quintet in C, D. 956 (1828): I, II, III, IV

 

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

• Tristan und Isolde (1859):
  • Prelude to Act I
  • Act III: Mild und Leise (“Isoldes Liebestod”)

 

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

• Rigoletto (1851), Act III:
  • E l’ami? (Rigoletto, Gilda, Duca, Sparafucile)
  • Bella figlia dell’amore (Duca, Maddalena, Gilda, Rigoletto)
  • La donna e mobile (Il Duca)
  • Della vendetta alfin giunge l’istante (Rigoletto, Sparafucile, Il Duca)
  • V’ho ingannato, colpevole fui (Gilda, Rigoletto)
• Otello (1887), Act I:
  • Una vela! Un vesillo! (chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)
  • Esuitatee (Otello, Chorus, Iago, Roderigo)
  • Roderigo, ebben che pensi? (Iago, Roderigo)
  • Fuoco di gioia (Chorus)
  • Roderigo, beviam! (Iago, Cassio, Chorus, Roderigo)
  • Già nella notte densa (Otello, Desdemona)

 

Anton Bruckner (182401896)

• Symphony no. 9 in D minor (1894): I, II, III

 

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

• Boris Godunov (1873): Prologue:
  • Scene 1
  • Scene 2 (Coronation scene)

 

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

• Enigma Variations, op. 36 (1899):
  • Theme
  • Variation I (C. A. E)
  • Variation II (H. D. S-P.)
  • Variation III (R. B. T.)
  • Variation IV (W. M. B.)
  • Variation VII (Troyte)
  • Variation IX (Nimrod)
  • Variation XIV (E. D. U.)

 

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

• Finlandia, op. 26 (1900)

 

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

• Gaspard de la nuit (1908):
  • Ondine
  • Le Gibet
  • Scarbo
• Chanson madécasses (1926):
  • Nahandove
  • Méfiez-vous des blancs
  • Il est doux

 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

• String Quartet no. 2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10 (1908):
  • Mäßig
  • Sehr rasch
  • “Litanei”, langsam
  • “Entrückung”, sehr langsam

 

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

• String Quartet no. 4 (1928): I, II, III, IV, V
• Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936): I, II, III, IV

Igor Stravinsky

• Requiem Canticles (1966):
  • Prelude
  • Exauldi
  • Dies Irae
  • Tuba mirum
  • Interlude
  • Rex tremendae
  • Lacrimosa
  • Libera me
  • Postlude

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

• Concerto, op. 24 (1934): I, II, III

 

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

• Ionisation (1931)

 

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

• Violin Concerto (“to the memory of an angel”) (1935): I, II

 

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

• Piano Sonata no. 7, op. 83 (1942): I, II, III

 

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

• Porgy and Bess (1935), Act I, Scene I:
  • Introduction, Jasbo Brown
  • Summertime
  • Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin’ to call
  • Give him to me
  • Here’s the ol’ crap shark
  • Here comes the big boy!
  • Six to make!
  • Jesus, he’s killed him!

 

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)

• Piccola Musica Notturna (1954)

 

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

• Symphony no. 5 in d minor, op. 47 (1937): I, II, III, IV

 

Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

• A Symphony for Three Orchestras (1976)

 

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

• Quartet for the End of TIme (1941):
  • Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
  • Abîme des oisaux
  • Fouillis d’ arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps

 

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

• Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes), op. 33a (1945):
  • Dawn
  • Sunday Morning

 

George Perle (1915-2009)

• Concertino for Piano, Winds and TImpani (1979)

 

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

• Metastaseis (1954)