Music Guide
Introduction
This page features prominent examples of Western art music, covering all major genres and periods.
Medieval
instrumental | dance | La Rotta anonymous |
standalone | Dou mal qui m'a longuement fait languir Machaut |
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vocal | plainchant | O pastor animarum Hildegard von Bingen |
monophonic | Je Vivroie Liement Machaut |
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polyphonic | Messe de Nostre Dame - Kyrie Machaut |
Renaissance
dance | |
Barriera Cesare Negri |
Pavan and Galliard a6 Byrd |
solo |
Mr Dowland's Midnight Dowland |
sacred vocal | secular vocal |
Sicut Cervus Palestrina |
Ce jour de l'an Dufay |
Baroque
chamber | concerto |
Flute Sonata No 2 - Siciliano Bach |
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 - Allegro moderato Bach |
dance | vocal |
Orchestral Suite No. 2 - Menuet Bach |
Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus Handel |
solo | |
Well-Tempered Clavier - Prelude 1 Bach |
Pastorale in F Major - Andantino tranquillo Bach |
Classical
solo | |
Violin Sonata No. 17 - Andante sostenuto Mozart |
Sonata Semplice - Andante Mozart |
concerto | concerto |
Trumpet Concerto - Allegro Haydn |
Clarinet Concerto - Adagio Mozart |
symphony | vocal |
Symphony No. 40 - Molto Allegro Mozart |
Ave Verum Corpus Mozart |
symphony | piano |
Symphony No. 5 - Allegro con brio Beethoven |
Moonlight Sonata - Adagio sostenuto Beethoven |
Romantic
symphony | |
New World Symphony - Largo Dvorak |
Symphony No. 1 - Un poco sostenuto; Allegro Brahms |
ballet | |
Nutcracker - Dance of the Mirlitons Tchaikovsky |
Swan Lake - Dance Of The Swans Tchaikovsky |
orchestral | |
Also sprach Zarathustra - Sunrise R Strauss |
Danse Macabre Saint-Saëns |
piano | |
Songs Without Words - Op.30 No.1 Mendelssohn |
Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade I Mussorgsky |
choral | lied |
Paulus - Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Mendelssohn |
Winterreise - Erstarrung Schubert |
Modern
orchestral | |
Downland Suite - Minuet Ireland |
Tuba Concerto - Prelude: Allegro Moderato Vaughan Williams |
piano | |
Preludes - La fille aux cheveux de lin Debussy |
3 Gymnopedies - Lent et grave Satie |
vocal | |
Carmina Burana - Fortuna Imperatrix mundi: O fortuna Orff |
Carmina Burana - Cour d'amours: In trutina Orff |
Opera
Baroque overture | Baroque duet |
Dido and Aeneas - Overture Purcell |
Giulio Cesare - Ritorni omai nel nostro core Mozart |
Baroque aria | |
Rinaldo - Lascia Ch'io pianga Handel |
Xerxes - Ombra mai fu Mozart |
Classical overture | Classical duet |
Don Giovanni - Overture Mozart |
Marriage of Figaro - Che soave zeffiretto (Sull'aria) Mozart |
Classical aria | |
Orfeo ed Eurydice - Gli sguardi trattieni Gluck |
Marriage of Figaro - Non più andrai Mozart |
Romantic overture | Romantic duet |
Barber of Seville - Overture Rossini |
La traviata - Libiamo, ne' lieti calici Verdi |
Romantic aria | |
Carmen - Votre toast Bizet |
L'elisir d'amore - Quanto è bella Donizetti |