Freshman Exam (New)

Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)

 

• Ave Maria, Virgo Serena (ca. 1485)

 

Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)

• Spem In Alium (ca. 1570)

 

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

• O Magnum Mysterium (1569)

 

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

• Il Lamento d’ Arianna (1608)

 

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

• Gloria (1715)

 

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

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

 

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

• Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G, BWV 1049 (1720)
  • Allegro
  • Andante
  • Allegro
• The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 (1722), Prelude & Fugue in C Minor
• Mass in B minor (1749), Kyrie I

 

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

• Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (1717):
  • Overture
  • Allegro
  • Presto
  • Bourree & Hornpipe

 

Joseph Hayden (1732-1809)

• Symphony no. 92 in G major (“The Oxford”) (1789)
  • Adagio – Allegro spiritoso
• String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2 (“Fifths”) (1796)
  • I: Allegro
  • II: Andante o più tosto allegretto
  • III: Menuetto
  • IV: Vivace assai

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

• Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491 (1786)
  • I: Allegro
  • II: Larghetto
  • III: Allegretto (Cadenza by Mitsuko Uchida)
• Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (1791)
• Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 591 (1789) (I) Allegro

 

 

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 (1812)
  • I: Poco sostenuto – Vivace
  • II: Allegretto
  • III: Presto – Assai meno presto
  • IV: Allegro con brio
• Piano Sonata #23 in F minor, op. 57 (“Appassionata”) (1806): Mvt I

 

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Impromptus, op. 90 (D. 899) (1827)
  • II: Allegro
  • III: Andante
  • IV: Allegretto
• Lieder
  • “An die Musik” (1827)
  • “Die Forelle” (1816-21)
  • “Der Tod und das Madchen” (1817)

 

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

• WIlliam Tell: Overture (1829)
  • Dawn
  • The Storm
  • Call to the Cows
  • March of the Swiss Soldiers

 

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

• Symphony no. 4 in A major, op. 90 (“The Italian”) (1833): Mvt I
• Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1845)
  • Allegro molto appassionato
  • Andante
  • Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace

 

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

• Mazurkas, op. 59 (1842)
  • Moderato
  • Allegretto
  • Vivace
• Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp minor, op. 39 (1839)

 

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 (1842) (I) Allegro brillante

 

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

• Un sospiro (1845-9)
• Orpheus (1854)

 

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

• Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 (1846) (I) Allegro moderato

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

• Violin Sonata in A (1886)
  • I: Allegretto ben moderato
  • II: Allegro
  • III: Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia
  • IV: Allegretto poco mosso

 

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano Op. 114 (1891) (I) Allegro
• Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 (1892)
  • Andante moderato
  • Andante on troppe e con molto espressione
  • Andante con moto

 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

• Danse macabre, Op. 40 (1874)

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

• Violin Concerto, op. 35 (1878): Mvt I
• Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (1892)
  • Miniature Overture
  • March
  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
  • IV: Russian Dance (Trepak)
  • V: Arabian Dance
  • VI: Chinese Dance
  • VII: Dance of the Reed Flutes
  • VIII: Waltz of the Flowers

 

Nikoalii Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

• Scheherazade, op. 35 (1888)
  • The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship

 

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Preludes, Book I (1919)
  • II: Voiles
  • VII: Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest
  • X: La cathédrale engloutie

 

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896)
  • I: Sunrise
  • VI: Of Science and Learning

 

Scott Joplin (18688-1917)

• Maple Leaf Rag (1899)

 

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

• The Planets, Op. 32 (1917)
  • Mars, the Bringer of War
  • Mercury, the Winged Messenger
  • IV: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
  • VII: Neptune, the Mystic

 

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

• Three Places in New England (1911-14)
  • The “St. Gaudens” in Boston Common
  • Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut
  • The Housatonic at Stockbridge

 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

• Three Piano Pieces, op. 11 (1909): Mvt. I
• Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
  • Moondrunk
  • The Sick Moon
  • Night
  • The Moonspot

 

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

• Daphnis et Chloe (1913), Suite no. 2

 

Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

• Take the A Train (1941)
  • By Billie Strayhorn (1939) with Lee Gaines (1942) and Joya Sherrill (1944)

 

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

• Struttin’ with Some Barbecue (1927)
  • By Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971)

Count Basie (1904-1984)

• One O’Clock Jump (1937)

 

Coleman Randolph Hawkings (1904-1969)

• Body and Soul (1939-1956)

 

Benny Goodman (1909-1986)

• Sing, Sing, Sing (1936)

 

Samuel Barber (1910-1986)

• Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936)
  • From String Quartet, op. 11/II

 

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1986)

• A Tisket, A Tasket (1938)

 

Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

• A Night in Tunisia (1942)
  • Famous solo by Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

 

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

• ‘Round Midnight (1947)

 

Art Blakey (1919-1990)

• Moanin’ (1958)

 

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)

• Take Five (1959, released by Paul Desmond)

 

 

John Coltrane (1926-1967)

• Giant Steps (1960)

 

Miles Davis (1926-1991)

• So What (1959)

 

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

• Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)

 

Wayne Shorter (1933-2023)

• Footprints (1966)

 

Lee Morgan (1938-1972)

• The Sidewinder (1963)