For each exam you will need to be able to identify the composers and titles of the pieces listed by listening to shorter audio excerpts from the assigned recordings of those pieces.  If the piece is part of a larger work, you need to know title and/or movement number of that piece as well as the overall title of the larger work.  Unless otherwise specified, if you are assigned more than one movement/number/excerpt/selection from the same overall work, you'll need to be able to distinguish each individual piece on the exam, in addition to knowing the title of the overall work.

As your a studying, be sure to listen to each entire piece whose title is listed in a istening list.

(For the third quiz-assignment, you'll need to listen to Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which will not appear on the exam for audio identification.  This piece is included with the online audio materials at W.W. Norton.)

Middle Ages (Medieval era):

• Hildegard of Bingen: "Alleluia, O virga mediatrix"
• School of Notre Dame: "Gaude Maria virgo"
• Guillaume de Machaut: "Ma fin est mon commencement"

Renaissance era:

• John Farmer: "Fair Phyllis"
• Josquin Desprez: "Ave Maria...virgo serena"
• Tielman Susato: Three dances [Note:  For the exam, you don't need to distinguish any of these three dances from each other.]

Baroque era:

• Cozzolani: Magnificat
• Strozzi: "Amor dormiglione"
• Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Act III, Dido's final recitative and aria ("Dido's Lament")  [Note:  On the exam, you will not have to distinguish between the recitative and the aria in the listening section.]
  • Act III
    • Recitative:  "Thy hand, Belinda" [followed directly by next item]
    • Aria (lament):  "When I am laid in earth"
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf
  • No. 1, Chorale fantasia ("Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme")
  • No. 4, Unison chorale ("Zion hört die Wächter singen")
  • No. 7, Chorale ("Gloria sei dir gesungen")
    
• George Frideric Handel: Messiah
  • No. 18, Air, "Rejoice greatly"
  • No. 44, Chorus, "Hallelujah"
• George Frideric Handel: Water Music
• Suite in D Major
• Alla hornpipe
• Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
  • Spring, 1st movement (Allegro)
• Johann Sebastian Bach:  Contrapunctus I, from The Art of Fugue

NOTE:  Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra will not be represented on the exam for audio recognition, but there still may be questions about the piece in the non-listening portions of the exam.

Last updated:  Feb. 12, 2019