GCSE Recommended Listening

Core Area of study: Repeated Patterns in Music

Baroque: Canon in D Pachelbel; Passacaglia in C minor and Crucifixus
from B minor Mass - JS Bach; Didos Lament and When Iam laid in earth
from Dido and Aeneas Purcell.
Classical: Movement 2 from Symphony No.7 Beethoven
Twentieth Century: Bolero Ravel; Mars from The Planets Holst;
Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra Britten; Violin Concerto Philip
Glass; Dies Irae [Requiem] and Adiemus Karl Jenkins
Popular Music: Tubular Bells 1 and 2 Mike Oldfield; Thriller Michael
Jackson and Clocks Coldplay.
Incidental Music
Classical: Egmont Overture Beethoven
Romantic: Rosamunde Schubert; A Midsummer Nights Dream and
Hebrides Overture [Fingals Cave] Mendelssohn; LArlesienne Bizet;
Peer Gynt Suite Grieg and Final scene from Rheingold Wagner.
Modern Film Scores: Jaws, ET, Indiana Jones John Williams; Pirates
of the Caribbean [Dead Mans Chest] Hans Zimmer and Batman
Danny Elfman.
Vocal Music
Baroque: Messiah GF Handel; St Matthew Passion and Chorales JS
Bach, and Dido and Aeneas [act 3] Purcell.
Romantic: Die Erlkonig, An die Musik, Die Forelle Schubert;
Wiegenleid [Lullaby] Brahms.
Musical Theatre:The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan;
Anything Goes Cole Porter; The Sound of Music Rodgers and
Hammerstein; Wicked and Godspell Stephen Schwartz.
Popular songs urban styles such as Hip Hop, Garage, Drum n Bass R and
B, Funk, Soul, Rave and Rap. Snow Patrol [Run].

Set works are in bold.