A Listening Guide To Some Individual And Collective Musical Languages Of The 20th Century


John Adams
  • Grand Pianola Music
William Albright
  • Take That
  • Organbook 2 (1971)
Louis Andriessen
  • De Staat (1973-76)
The Band
  • Music from the Big Pink (CD)
Bela Bartok
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)
  • String Quartet No. 5
  • String Quartet No. 6
  • Piano Concerto No.1 (1926)
  • Out Of Doors ( solo piano ), Sonata ( 1926, solo piano )
Alban Berg
  • Concerto For Violin and Orchestra (To The Memory of an Angel)
  • Kammerkonzert, For Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
  • Lulu, an opera
  • Lyric Suite
John Bergamo
  • On The Edge
Luciano Berio
  • Laborintus 2, for voices, instr., & tape (1965)
  • Folk Songs
Pierre Boulez
  • La Marteau sans Maitre (1954)
  • Eclat (1964)
  • Rituel (1974/75)
Benjamen Britten
  • Serenade, op. 31
  • War Requiem, op. 66
  • Symphony For Cello & Orchestra, op. 68
Earle Brown
  • Syntagm 3 (1970)
Jeff Buckley
  • Grace (CD)
John Cage
  • Amores (1943)
  • Double Music w/ Lou Harrison (1941)
  • The Seasons
  • String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
  • Third Construction (1941)
Elliott Carter
  • Double Concerto For Harpsichord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras (1959-61)
  • Triple Duo
Johnny Cash
  • Live at Folsom Prison (CD)
Ornette Coleman
  • Change Of The Century (LP)
  • Free Jazz (LP)
John Coltrane
  • Ascension (CD)
  • Expression w/ Alice Coltrane (CD)
  • Meditations (CD)
  • OM (CD)
  • Selflessness (CD)
Aarron Copland
  • Short Symphony ( no. 2 )
  • Piano Sonata
  • Piano Variations
  • Quiet City
John Corigliano
  • Symphony No. 1
George Crumb
  • Eleven Echoes Of Autumn
  • Black Angels
  • Music For A Summer Evening ( Makrokosmos 3 ), (1974)
Mario Davidovsky
  • String Quartet No. 4 (1980)
Miles Davis
  • The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (4CD)
  • In A Silent Way (CD)
  • My Funny Valentine (CD)
  • Black Beauty: Live At Fillmore West (2CD)
  • In Concert Live At Philharmonic Hall (2CD)
  • Live Evil (2CD)
Claude Debussy
  • La Mer
  • Preludes, Book 1 & 2, for piano
Eric Dolphy
  • Out To Lunch (LP)
  • Other Aspects (LP)
Franco Donatoni
  • Tema (1982)
Bob Dylan
  • Bringing It All Back Home (CD)
  • John Wesley Harding (CD)
  • Blonde On Blonde (CD)
  • Slow Train Coming (CD)
  • Blood On The Tracks (CD)
Duke Ellington
  • This Is Duke Ellington (LP)
  • The Far East Suite (LP or CD)
  • Black, Brown, & Beige (LP or CD)
  • First Time! The Count Meets The Duke (LP or CD)
Brian Eno
  • Another Green World (CD)
  • Here Come The Warm Jets (CD)
  • Music For Airports (CD)
Morton Feldman
  • Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety
  • Rothko Chapel
  • String Quartet (1985)
  • Violin and Orchestra
Lukas Foss
  • Time Cycle, four songs with orchestra (1960)
  • Baroque Variations, for orchestra (1967)
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
  • Shady Grove
Henryk Gorecki
  • Symphony No. 3, op. 36 (1976)
Grateful Dead
  • American Beauty (CD)
  • Dick's Picks Volume 4, Fillmore East, 2/13-14/70 (3CD)
  • Dick's Picks, Volume 10, 12/29/77 & 12/30/77, (3CD)
  • Dick's Picks, Volume 14, 11/30/73 & 12/02/73, Boston Music Hall (4CD)
  • Reckoning
Lou Harrison
  • Double Music w/ John Cage (1941)
  • The Fugue
John Hartford
  • Aereo - Plain (CD)
Hans Werner Henze
  • Symphony No. 5
Andrew Hill
  • Point Of Departure (CD)
Arthur Honnegger
  • Pacific 231
Randy Hostetler
  • Happily Ever After (cd)
Eleanor Hovda
  • Spring Music With Wind (1973)
  • Regions
Karman Ince
  • Waves of Talya
Charles Ives
  • Symphony No. 2
  • Symphony No. 4
  • The Unanswered Question
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60"
Keith Jarrett
  • Survivor's Suite (CD)
Jonathan Kramer
  • Five Studies On 6 Notes
  • Moments In And Out Of Time, for orchestra
  • Music For Piano No. 2 (1967)
  • Music For Piano No. 5 (1979-80)
Daniel Lanois
  • For The Beauty Of Wynona (CD)
Gyorgy Ligeti
  • Etudes Pour Piano (1985)
  • Etude No. 1 "Harmonies" (1967)
  • Doppelkonzert fur Flote, Oboe und Orchester (1972)
  • SanFrancisco Polyphony fur Orchester (1973-74)
Little Feat
  • Waiting For Columbus (CD)
Los Lobos
  • Colossal Head (CD)
Witold Lutoslawski
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Symphony No. 4
  • String Quartet (1964)
Bob Marley
  • Songs Of Freedom (4 CD set)
Peter Maxwell Davies
  • L'Homme Arme', for speaker ( or singer ) and chamber ens. (1968 revised 1971)
  • Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969)
Oliver Messiaen
  • Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle (1932)
  • L'Ascension (1933)
  • Chronochromie (1960)
  • Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for vln., cl., cello, & piano (1941)
Charles Mingus
  • Ah Um (CD)
  • Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife (LP or CD)
  • Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (CD)
Stephen L. Mosko
  • The Cosmology Of Easy Listening
Willie Nelson
  • Red Headed Stranger (CD)
Luigi Nono
  • Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica
Parliament
  • Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980 (2 CD set)
Arvo Part
  • Fratres (1977)
  • Cantus in memory of Benjamen Britten Perpetuum Mobile, op. 10 (1963)
Walter Piston
  • Cappriccio for Harp and String Orchestra
Mel Powell
  • Modules: An Intermezzo for Chamber Orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev
  • Symphony No. 5 (1944)
Steve Reich
  • Octet (1979)
  • Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)
  • Music for Mallet Instruments Voices and Organ (1973)
  • Tehillim
George Russell
  • All About Rosie (LP)
Gerhard Samuel
  • Sun - Like (1975)
Arnold Schoenberg
  • Five Pieces For Orchestra
  • Serenade, for septet and baritone
  • String Quartet No. 3
  • Piano Concerto
Gunther Schuller
  • Transformation (LP)
Ruth Crawford - Seeger
  • Quartet (1931)
Jean Sibelius
  • Symphony No. 4
Dimitri Shostakovich
  • Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings (1933)
Wynn Stewart
  • California Country - The Best of the Challenge Masters (CD)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Mikrophonie 1 (1964)
  • Stimmung, for six vocalists (1968)
  • Mantra, for two pianists (1970)
Igor Stravinsky
  • The Rite of Spring
  • Symphony In Three Movements
  • Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  • Symphony of Psalms, for chorus and orchestra
  • Movements, for piano and orchestra
SunRa
  • Calling Planet Earth (3 CD set)
Toru Takemitsu
  • Quatrain, for cl., vln. , cello, piano, and orchestra (1975)
  • Sacrifice (1962)
  • A Way A Lone - string quartet (premiered 1981)
Sir Michael Tippett
  • Concerto For Double String Orchestra
  • Fantasia on a Theme of Handel
  • Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli
Henry Threadgill
  • sextet - Rag, Bush, & All (CD)
Edgar Varese
  • Deserts (1945-54)
  • Ionisation (1930-31)
  • Integrales (1924)
  • Hyperprism (1922-23)
The Velvet Underground
  • Loaded (CD)
Lois Vierk
  • Cirrus
Anton Webern
  • Six Pieces For Large Orchestra, op. 6
  • Five Pieces For Orchestra, op. 10
  • String Trio, op. 20
  • Das Augenlicht, for mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 26
  • Variations For Piano, op. 27
Kenny Wheeler
  • Angel Song (CD)
  • Deer Wan (CD)
Stefan Wolpe
  • Passacaglia
Iannis Xenakis
  • Eotna
  • Akrata
  • Phlegra
La Monte Young
  • The Second Dream of the High - Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China




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