Music Appreciation 8
Listening Exam Excerpts

The listening exam will draw from the following excerpts. The links will allow you to download an MP3 of the work. I am also giving you hints for each.

• Plainchant Mass - Pange Lingua
  How many voices? Does this matter?
   
• Claude Sermisy - Tant que vivray
  What language is this in?
   
• Josquin des Prez - Missa Pange Lingua
  What kind of work is polyphonic and sacred?
   
• William Byrd - Sing Joyfully
  What instances of word painting are present in this excerpt?
   
• Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
  What kind of work features arias and instrumental interludes?
   
• J.S. Bach - Cantata Jesu, der du meine Selle
  Listen carefully for the instrumentation!
   
• Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor
  Only instrumental solos with orchestra are called concertos!
   
• J.S. Bach - The Well Tempered Clavier - Prelude and Fugue in C Major
  What is the texture of the two parts?
   
• Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet Op. 33 No. 3 Movement IV
  How is this work more complex than the ones above?
   
•  Ralph Vaughan Williams - In the Fen Country
  The texture of this work is very thick (the orchestration is dense). Listen for all four sections of the symphony orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion).