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Billy the Kid
- Composer: Copland
- Decade: 1930
- Genre: Ballet
- Facts:
- - Orchestral suit
- - Story of Bully the kid
- - Cowboy music
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New World Symphony No. 9 in E minor
- Composer: Dvorak
- Decade: 1890
- Genre: Symphony
- Facts:
- - Full Orchestra
- - Sonata Allegro Form
- - Base drums
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Quartet for the End of Time
- Composer: Messiaen
- Decade: 1940
- Genre: Quartet
- Facts:
- - Violin, Piano, Clarinet, Cello
- - Dissonant like you would not believe
- - Muted strings
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Pierrot Lunaire
- Composer: Schoenberg
- Decade: 1910
- Genre: Solo voice and ensemble
- Facts:
- - Song cycle
- - Rondeau form
- - Post-tonal
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The Rite of Spring
- Composer: Stavinsky
- Decade: 1910
- Genre: Ballet
- Facts:
- - Based in Pagan Russia
- - Full Orchestra
- - Complicated rhythm
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Violin Concerto in E minor 1st mvt
- Composer: Mendelssohn
- Decade: 1840
- Genre: Concerto
- Facts:
- - Solo Violin
- - Full Orchestra Accompaniment
- - Minor
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The Little Bell
- Composer: Liszt
- Decade: 1830
- Genre: Solo Piano
- Facts:
- - Based on Pganini Violin Concerto
- - Fast
- - Variations
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The Trout
- Composer: Schubert
- Decade: 1810
- Genre: Solo voice and piano
- Facts:
- - German
- - Lied
- - Modified Strophic
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Trout Quintet in A Major
- Composer: Schubert
- Decade: 1810
- Genre: Quintet (4 strings, piano)
- Facts:
- - Fourth movement
- - Major
- - Song cycle
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Prelude in E minor
- Composer: Chopin
- Decade: 1830
- Genre: Solo piano
- Facts:
- - Minor
- - Homophonic
- - Largo
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Madame Butterfly
- Composer: Puccini
- Decade: 1900
- Genre: Opera
- Facts:
- - Set in Japan
- - Italian
- - Depressing
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Rigoletto
- Composer: Verdi
- Decade: 1850
- Genre: Opera
- Facts:
- - Based on a play by Victor Hugo
- - Italian
- - Aria
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The Song of the Earth
- Composer: Mahler
- Decade: 1900
- Genre: Song Cycle
- Facts:
- - Sounds as though it was influenced greatly by
- the Chines
- - Performed 1911
- - Pentatonic
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Symphony No. 3 in F Major, 3rd mvt
- Composer: Brahms
- Decade: 1880
- Genre: Symphony
- Facts:
- - Full orchestra
- - ABA form
- - Cello line
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Erlking
- Composer: Schubert
- Decade: 1810
- Genre: solo voice and piano
- Facts:
- - German
- - Lied
- - Piano sounds like a horse galloping
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In the Lovely Month of May
- Composer: R. Schumann
- Decade: 1880
- Genre: Solo voice and piano
- Facts:
- - Lyric Poem
- - Strophic
- - German
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Polonaise in A Major
- Composer: Chopin
- Decade: 1830
- Genre: Solo piano
- Facts:
- - Allegro
- - Three part dance form
- - Intended as a march
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Symphony Fantastique
- Composer: Brahms
- Decade: 1880
- Genre: Program Symphony
- Facts:
- - Five movements
- - Full orchestra
- - Romantic
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The Moldau
- Composer: Smetana
- Decade: 1870
- Genre: Symphonic pome
- Facts:
- - Song cycle
- - Musical image of River
- - Minor and Major
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A German Requiem
- Composer: Brahms
- Decade: 1860
- Genre: Requiem
- Facts:
- - 4 part Chorus
- - Word Painting
- - Acceptance of death
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Die Walkure
- Composer: Wagner
- Decade: 1850
- Genre: Opera/ Music Drama
- Facts:
- - Song Cycle
- - Performed in 1870
- - German
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Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Fuan"
- Composer: Debussy
- Decade: 1890
- Genre: Symphonic Poem
- Facts:
- - Small ensemble
- - Ternary form
- - French
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Wozzeck
- Composer: Berg
- Decade: 1920
- Genre: Opera
- Facts:
- - Act Opera
- - German
- - Post-tonal
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Symphony, Op 21, 2nd mvt
- Composer: Webern
- Decade: 1920
- Genre: Chamber Orchestra
- Facts:
- - Twelve tone
- - Pointillistic
- - Theme and variation form
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Concerto for Orchestra, 4th mvt
- Composer: Bartok
- Decade: 1940
- Genre: Concerto
- Facts:
- - Full orchestra
- - Rondo Form
- - Irregular Rhythm
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Things Our Fathers Loved
- Composer: Ives
- Decade: 1910
- Genre: Solo voice (woman) and piano
- Facts:
- - Various American Tunes
- - Piano independent
- - Off key
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West Side Story
- Composer: Bernstein
- Decade: 1950
- Genre: Musical Theatre
- Facts:
- - Afro-Cuban Dance
- - Latin American Rhythms
- - Rhythmic clapping
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Raiders March from RoLA
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- Composer: Williams
- Decade: 1980
- Genre: Film score
- Facts:
- - Full orchestra
- - March music
- - Ternary form
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Sonata V from Sonata and Interludes
- Composer: Cage
- Decade: 1940
- Genre: Solo piano
- Facts:
- - Piano “prepared”
- - Binary
- - Percussive effects
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Notations IV
- Composer: Bolez
- Decade: 1940
- Genre: Solo Piano
- Facts:
- - Meter changes
- - Orchestral Timbre
- - Dissonance
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Disorder from Etudes for Piano
- Composer: Ligeti
- Decade: 1980
- Genre: Solo piano
- Facts:
- - Serialism
- - Fast
- - Rhythmic convergence and divergence
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Tromba lontana
- Composer: Adams
- Decade: 1980
- Genre: Orchestral
- Facts:
- - Solo Trumpets
- - Minimalist
- - String harmonics
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