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PART I: THE MIDDLE AGES 1. Hildegard von Bingen: Play of Virtues (excerpt) 2. San Ildefonso Indians of New Mexico: Eagle Dance 3. Francesco Landini: Behold, Spring 4: Guillaume de Machaut: I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady 5. Alfonso el Sabio: Songs to the Virgin Mary no. 249, He Who Gladly Serves PART II: THE RENAISSANCE 6. Josquin des Prez: The Cricket 7. Thomas Weelkes: Since Robin Hood 8. William Byrd: Sing Joyfully 9. Rhyming Singers of the Bahamas: My Lord Help Me To Pray PART III: THE BAROQUE ERA 10. Claudio Monteverdi: Orpheus, selection from Act II 11. Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture and Act I, nos. 1-4 12. Mbuti Pygmies: "Marriage Celebration Song" 13. Barbara Strozzi: "Revenge" 14. Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, "Winter," first movement. 15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 ("Little") 16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047, finale 17. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 140 ("Awake, a Voice Calls to Us"), selections 18. George Frideric Handel: Messiah, selections PART IV: THE CLASSICAL ERA 19. Joseph Haydn: String Quartet op. 76, no. 3, second movement 20. Master Musicians of the Ikuta-ryu (Japan): Cherry Blossom 21. Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 102, Bm third and fourth movements 22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, first movement 23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 first movement 24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Act I, "Cosa sento" 25. William Billings: "Chester" PART V: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 26. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op.7 27. Franz Schubert: "Erlking,"D. 328 28. Felix Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream 29. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, fourth movement ("March to the Scaffold") 30 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Trio, op. 11, third movement 31. Clara Schumann: "Forward!" 32. Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in Bb, op. 7, no. 1 33. Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Union: Concert Paraphrase on National Airs 34. Ravi Shankar (India): Raga Sindhi-Bhairavi 35. Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata, Act I, selection 36. Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie, Act III, selection ("Wotan's farewell") 37. Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 4, in E minor, op.98, finale 38. Antonin DvoYak: String Quartet in F Major, op. 96 ("American"), third movement PART VI: SINCE 1900 39. Claude Debussy: Voiles 40. Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question 41. Arnold Schoenberg: "Columbine" from Pierrot lunaire 42. Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part One (excerpt) 43. Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag 44. Robert Johnson: "Terraplane Blues" 45. Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail 46. Charlie Parker: Ornithology 47. Ruth Crawford: Piano Study in Mixed Accents 48. Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra, finale 49. William Grant Still: "A Black Pierrot" from Songs of Separation 50. Aaron Copland: "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo (3:05) 51. Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, second movement ("Game of Paris") 52. Leonard Bernstein: "Tonight" from West Side Story (ensemble) 53. John Cage: Sonata II from Sonetas and Interludes 54. Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Belaluan, Bali: Kebyar Ding III, "Oncang-oncangan" 55. Philip Glass: "Knee Play 1" from Einstein on the Beach 56. Chuck Berry: "School Day" 57. Public Enemy: "Fight the Power" 58. Tania Leon: A la Par, second movement("Guaguanco") 59. John Williams: "The Walls Converge," from Star Wars 60. Corey Dargel: "On This Date Every Year" 61. Austin Wietory: "Nascence," From Journey PART VII: YOUR MUSIC

About the Author

Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universit(TM)t Kiel (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.) His books include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven (2006), and Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (2014). He is the author of numerous essays on the music of Haydn and Mozart, on the nineteenth-century symphony, and on the aesthetics and philsophy of music. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the William N. Reynolds Foundation. The fourth edition of his History of Music in Western Culture, a textbook for undergraduate music history suvey courses, was published by Pearson in 2013. The new third edition of Listen to This reflects his experience and dedication to teaching music appreciation to undergraduates for more than 20 years.