Masterpieces of Western Music
Fall 2003 Virtual Tape

John Smalley


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Virtual Tape 1 The Instruments of the Orchestra
  1. The Instruments of the Orchestra:
    The Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, String Choir (Tchaikovsky: Serenade ii C), Harp
    The Woodwinds: Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon, Contra-Bassoon, Woodwind Choir (Wagner: Die Meistersinger, excerpt)
    The Brass: French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Brass Choir (Wagner: Die Meistersinger, excerpt)
    The Percussion: Timpani, Bass Drum, Snare Drum-Cymbals, Triangle, Tambourine, Chimes, Gong, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Celesta, Various, Combined Percussion (Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, excerpt)
    Full Orchestra: Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, excerpt
    The Instruments of the Orchestra/Young Person's Guide, Vanguard Classics, OVC 8096/97, CD 1 Tracks 1-16, CD 2 Tracks 1-18
Virtual Tape 2 Middle Ages, Renaissance
  1. Anon.:Dies Irae

  2. Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutem, Scene 4

  3. Guillaume de Machaut:Quant en moy

  4. Carlo Gesualdo:Moro lasso

  5. Orlande de Lassus: Introit from Requiem
   
Virtual Tape 3 Baroque Era
  1. Johann Pachelbel:Canon in D major

  2. Tomaso Albinoni:Adagio in G minor for strings and organ

  3. Antonio Vivaldi:Spring from The Four Seasons
            i. Allegro
            iii. Largo e pianissimo sempre
            iii. Danza Pastorale (Allegro)

  4. Louis Couperin:Prélude in C major
   
 Virtual Tape 4 Classical Era
  1. Joseph Haydn:String Quartet in B-flat major, op. 1, no. 1, mvt. i
             i Presto

  2. Joseph Haydn:String Quartet in C major, op. 20, no. 2
             i Moderato
             ii Capriccio:Adagio
             iii Minuet:Allegretto
             iv Fuga a quattro soggetti

  3. Joseph Haydn:String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 64, no. 6, mvt. iii
            iii Menuetto:Allegretto

  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K.453
            i: Allegro
            ii: Andante
            iii: Allegretto

  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, K 525
            i: Allegro
            ii: Romanza, Andante
            iii: Allegretto
            iv: Allegro

  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Arias"Der Vogelfœnger bin ich ja" [Text] and "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön," from The Magic Flute

  7. Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique"
            i: Grave: Allegro con molto e con brio
            ii: Adagio cantabile
            iii: Rondo: Allegro
   
Virtual Tape 5 Romantic Era
  1. Frédéric Chopin:Mazurka in E-flat minor, op. 6, no. 4

  2. Franz Schubert:Nacht und Träume

  3. Robert Schumann:"Seit ich ihn gesehen" from Frauenliebe und Leben [Text]

  4. Hugo Wolf:Anakreons Grab

  5. Richard Wagner: Prelude and "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde
           
    Prelude
            Liebestod [Text]
   
 Virtual Tape 6 Modern Era
  1. Claude Debussy:Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"

  2. Igor Stravinsky:"Tarantella," from Pulcinella Suite

  3. Erik Satie:"Dog Song," from Floppy Preludes (for a dog)

  4. Henry Cowell: The Banshee

  5. Henry Cowell: The Aeolian Harp
      
  6. Harry Partch:Barstow-Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions

  7. Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Busungbiu, Northwest Bali: Tabuh Gari

  8. Colin McPhee:Tabuh-Tabuhan, mvt. i"Ostinatos"

  9. John Cage:Sonata No. 5, from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  10. Conlon Nancarrow:Studies for Player Piano,
            No. 3a
            No. 21

  11. Earle Brown:December 1952

  12. Terry Riley:In C (excerpt)

  13. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge (excerpt)

  14. Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

  15. Steve Reich:Come Out

  16. Ingram Marshall:Prelude to Alcatraz

  17. Ingram Marshall:"Cell Doors," from Alcatraz

  18. Dave Soldier, Richard Lair, and the Thai Elephant Orchestra:Thung Kwian Sunrise

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