Norton Anthology of Western Music

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The Ancient and Medieval Worlds

  1. Epitaph of Seikilos

  2. Euripides: Orestes

  3. Mass for Christmas Day

  4. Chants for Vespers for Christmas Day

  5. Tropes on Puer natus

  6. Sequences Victimae paschali laudes and Dies irae

  7. Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum

  8. Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover

  9. Comtessa de Dia: A chantar

  10. Adam de la Halle: Jeu de Robin et de Marion

  11. Walther von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied

  12. Cantigas de Santa Maria

  13. La quarte estampie royal

  14. Organum from Musica enchiriadis

  15. Alleluia Justus ut palma and Alleluia. Dies sanctificatus

  16. Leoninus: Viderunt omnes

  17. Perotinus: Alleluia. Nativitas

  18. Clausulae on Dominus

  19. Motets on Tenor Dominus

  20. Franco of Cologne: Petrus beatae virgines

  21. Adam de la Halle: De ma dame vient/Dieus, comment porroie/Omnes

The Renaissance

  1. Philippe de Vitry: Cum statua/Hugo, Hugo/Magister invidie

  2. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame

  3. Francesco Landini: Non avrà ma’ pietà

  4. Jacopo da Bologna: Non al suo amante

  5. Guillaume Dufay: Se la face ay pale

  6. Johannes Ockeghem: Missa prolationum

  7. Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria ... virgo serena

  8. Jacob Obrecht: Fortuna desperata

  9. Heinrich Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

  10. Pierre de la Rue: Puer natus est nobis

  11. Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

  12. John Dowland: Flow, my tears

Baroque Music

  1. Claudio Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli

  2. Giulio Caccini: Amarilli, mia bella

  3. Alessandro Grandi: O quam tu pulchra es

  4. Jacopo Peri: Le musiche sopra l’Euridice

  5. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo

  6. Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero

  7. Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie

  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide

  9. Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée

  10. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite No. 3 in A minor

  11. Antonio Vivaldi: La stravaganza, Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4

  12. Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

  13. George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Classical and Romantic Music

  1. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D major, K. 119

  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata in F major, K. 332

  3. Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1

  4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

  5. Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade

  6. Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit

  7. Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe

  8. Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

  9. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

  10. Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

  11. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74

Twentieth Century and Beyond

  1. Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

  2. Igor Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps

  3. Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire

  4. Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

  5. Anton Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

  6. Duke Ellington: "Cotton Tail"

  7. John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  8. George Crumb: Black Angels

  9. Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

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