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List for Listening Quiz #5

Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (opera)
Prelude, “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer”

Paul Hindemith: Symphony Mathis der Maler (symphony)

second movement, “Grablegung”

Sergey Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 (cantata)

fourth movement, “Arise, Ye Russian People”

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (symphony)

second movement

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (vocalise and song)

No. 1, “Aria (Cantilena)”

Silvestre Revueltas: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (suite for chamber orchestra)
first movement, “Baile”

Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism (work for winds, brass and percussion)

Henry Cowell: The Banshee (piano piece)

Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931 (string quartet)

fourth movement

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (ballet suite)

Excerpts with Variations on Tis the Gift to be Simple

William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony (symphony)

first movement

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (musical)

Act I, No. 8, “Cool”

Vincent Persichetti: Symphony for Band, Op. 69 (symphony for band)

first movement

Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (opera)

Act III, Scene 2, “To hell with all your mercy!”

Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (quartet for violin, clarinet, cello and piano)
first movement, “Liturgie de cristal”

Pierre Boulez: Le marteau sans maître (chamber song cycle)

sixth movement, “Bourreaux de solitude”