Listening List
Listening List
Ex 1.1: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement
Credit | University of Colorado Boulder College of Music YouTube Channel
University of Colorado Boulder Symphony Orchestra; Gary Lewis, conductor
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.2: Scott Joplin, The Entertainer
Credit | Fantástico Guaxinim YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.3: Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in E Minor
Credit | No Copyright Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.4: Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude in C
Credit | No Copyright Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.5: Japanese shakuhachi performance, Prelude to Kumoi Jishi
Credit | Hanz Araki YouTube Channel
Araki Kodo VI, shakuhachi
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.6: Bessie Smith, “Lost Your Head Blues”
Will enter the public domain on January 1, 2026
Ex. 1.7: Bayaka women, Congo, polyphonic singing
Credit | Romain Duda – Chronicles of Central Africa YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.8: George Frideric Handel, “Hallelujah” Chorus
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.9: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, “Gut Bucket Blues”
Music recording public domain
Ex. 1.10: Edvard Grieg, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Credit | No Copyright Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 1.11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Variations on “Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman” (“Twinkle” Variations)
Credit | RochesterMusicGuild YouTube Channel
Mikael Sloane, piano
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 2.1: Hildegard of Bingen, “O virtus sapientiae”
Credit | San Francisco Girls Chorus YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 2.2: Theobald I of Navarre, Estampie Royale
Credit | CMMP / Ensembles Alla francesca & Discantus YouTube Channel
Brigitte Lesne, director
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 2.3: Josquin Des Prez, “Ave Maria”
Credit | Javier Carrasco Melo YouTube Channel
Coro avanzado 2017 Universidad Católica, Paula Torres director
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 2.4: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass, “Santus”
Credit | mk671vlogs YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 2.5: Thomas Weelkes, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill”
Credit | VOCES8 YouTube Channel
Shared by permission
Ex. 2.6: John Dowland, “Flow My Tears”
Credit | The Tenor YouTube Channel
Shared by permission
Ex: 2.7: Vicente Lusitano, “Heu me Domine”
Credit | AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CHOIR YouTube Channel
Shared by permission
Ex. 3.1: Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, Toccata
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.2: Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, “Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi”
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.3: Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, “Thy Hand, Belinda”
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.4: Francisco López Capillas, Canticle to the Virgin Mary for 4 voices
Credit | zvillano_musik YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.5: Arcangelo Corelli, Christmas Concerto
Credit | jon fylling, musical director YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.6: Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D major
Credit | Kevin MacLeod Archive YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.7: Antonio Vivaldi, Spring, first movement
Credit | Classical Melodies HQ YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.8: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Trio Sonata No. 3 in D
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.9: Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor
Credit | Moscow Piano Open International Piano Competition YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.10: Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B Minor, “Dona nobis pacem”
Credit | Moscow Piano Open International Piano Competition YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.11: George Frideric Handel, Water Music, Hornpipe
Credit | YouClassic Competition YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 3.12: George Frideric Handel, “Hallelujah” Chorus
Credit | Les Arts Florissants YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.1: Franz Joseph Haydn, Emperor Quartet, second movement
Credit | Euroasia Association of Performing Arts YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.2: Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 101 (The Clock), second movement
Credit | Geneva Camerata YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.3: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Credit | Student Symphony Orchestra of USC YouTube Channel
Shared by permission
Ex. 4.4: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40, first movement
Credit | Orchestral Ensemble Seoul OES YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.5: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No, 23 in A Major, first movement
Credit | BREEZEART YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.6: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, act 1 finale
Credit | LiceuOperaBarcelona YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.7: Ludwig van Beethoven, “Pathétique” Sonata, first movement
Credit | Campbell Piano Academy YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex 4.8: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement
Credit | University of Colorado Boulder College of Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 4.9: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, fourth movement (excerpt, “Ode to Joy”)
Credit | CreatorsCloud – No Copyright Audiovisual YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.1: Franz Schubert, “Erlkönig”
Credit | Yves Hon YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.2: Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, fourth movement (“March to the scaffold”)
Credit | Midwest Young Artists Conservatory YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.3: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)
Credit | Wandering Music Stars Festival and Competition YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.4: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
Credit | Music Now – Classical Music And Art YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.5: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade
Credit | Loft Philharmonic YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.6: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, The Great Gate of Kiev
Credit | Loft Philharmonic YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.7: Edvard Grieg, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Credit | No Copyright Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.8: Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in E Minor
Credit | No Copyright Music YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.9: Clara Schumann, Scherzo no. 2, Op. 14
Credit | Classical Music Castle YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.10: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, They Will Not Lend Me A Child, Op. 59 No. 4, for Piano Trio
Credit | minacciosa YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.11: Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3, third movement
Credit | Centro Cultural Kirchner YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 5.12: Amy Beach, Mass in E-flat Major, “Kyrie”
Credit | Student Symphony Orchestra of USC YouTube Channel
Shared by permission
Ex. 6.1: Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, La traviata, “Follie! Follie!” and “Sempre libera”
Credit | LiceuOperaBarcelona YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 6.2: Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Die Walkὒre, “O hehrstes Wunder”
Credit | DeutscheOperBerlin YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 6.3: Georges Bizet, Carmen, “Habanera”
Credit | DeutscheOperBerlin YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 6.4: Giacomo Puccini, La bohème, “Che gelida manina”
Credit | DeutscheOperBerlin YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 6.5: Gilbert & Sullivan, HMS Pinafore, “Never mind the why and wherefore”
Credit | East Norfolk Operatic Society YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.1: Claude Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Credit | John Belew YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.2: Claude Debussy, The Sunken Cathedral
Credit | Anastasia Huppmann YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.3: Lili Boulanger, Nocturne for flute and piano
Credit | Franziska Kannewischer-Fisch YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.4: Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire, “Mondestrunken” (“Drunk with Moonlight”)
Credit | BA_CIC YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.5: Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings
Credit | New York Classical Players YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.6: Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Credit | Stedelijk Orkest Purmerend TV YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 7.7: William Grant Still, To You America
Credit | West Point Band YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.1: Balinese gamelan performance, “Kapi Raja”
Credit | pieterduimelaar YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.2: Bayaka women, Congo, polyphonic singing
Credit | Romain Duda – Chronicles of Central Africa YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.3: Chinese erhu and yangqin performance, “Honghu People’s Wish”
Credit | GBCCA Chinese Music Ensemble YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.4: Sexteto Habanero, “Ahora Si”
Will enter the public domain by January 1, 2027
Ex. 8.5: Ghanaian traditional music performance
Credit | FOLK MUSIC WORLD YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.6: Japanese shakuhachi performance, Prelude to Kumoi Jishi
Credit | Hanz Araki YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.7: Islamic call to worship, “Adhan”
Credit | Muslim Community Center – MCC East Bay YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.8: Mexican mariachi performance, “El Fuereño”
Credit | Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán Oficial YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 8.9: Zuni Rainbow Dance
Credit | Kaden B YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 9.1: “Amazing Grace” quartet performance by Brio Sonores
Credit | Brio Sonores Official YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 9.2: “Amazing Grace” Gospel performance by Life Destiny TV
Credit | Life Destiny Television YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 9.3: Bessie Smith, “Lost Your Head Blues”
Will enter the public domain on January 1, 2026
Ex. 9.4: Scott Joplin, The Entertainer
Credit | Fantástico Guaxinim YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Ex. 9.5: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, “Gut Bucket Blues”
Music recording public domain
Ex. 9.6: George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Credit | movie song free YouTube Channel
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Attributions
If remixing or citing from the Listening List, refer to the attribution listed under each example.
