The repertoire of music on the NAWM recordings and Supplementary
Recordings includes pieces that you should know as individual works, pieces that
you should recognize as representatives of a genre or style, and pieces we will
use for comparison to help illuminate what is distinctive about the pieces we
focus on. All of this music will provide examples you can refer to in
writing short answer and essay questions on the written examinations, but on the
listening examinations different pieces will be tested in different ways.
Listening examinations will include "known works" drawn from the
listening list. You will be expected to identify the composer, title,
genre, and approximate date. The date and genre for each work are given in the
listening list and in the Study and Listening Guide; they are
sometimes lacking in Grout-Palisca and NAWM. Listening examinations may
also include "unknown works," pieces not on the listening list that are also
representative examples of a certain genre, style, or composer that we have
studied. You will be asked to identify, not the piece itself, but the
genre, style, probable composer, and approximate date, and to provide reasons
for your answer. Generally, these unknown works will share many features with at
least one work we have studied, so the greater your familiarity with the pieces
on the listening list, the easier it will be to identify the unknown works.
Gregorian chant: The Mass and the Office
- NAWM 3. Mass for Christmas Day, in Gregorian chant (no
date)
- NAWM 4. Office of Second Vespers, Nativity of Our Lord
(evening service on Christmas Day), in Gregorian chant (no date)
- (NAWM 4a: Verse: Deus in Adjutorium (no
recording))
- NAWM 4b:
Antiphon: Tecum principium
- NAWM 4c:
Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus
- NAWM 4d: Antiphon: Redemptionem misit Dominus
(no recording)
- NAWM 4d: Psalm 110: Confitebor tibi Domine (no
recording)
- NAWM 4f: Antiphon: Exortum est in tenebris (no
recording)
- NAWM 4g: Psalm 111: Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
(no recording)
- NAWM 4h: Antiphon: Apud Dominum (no recording)
- NAWM 4i: Psalm 129: De profundis clamavi ad te
(no recording)
- NAWM 4j:
Short Responsory: Verbum Caro
- NAWM 4k: Hymn: Christe Redemptor (no recording)
- (NAWM 4l: Verse: Notum fecit (no recording))
- (NAWM 4m: Antiphon: Hodie Christus natus est
(no recording))
- (NAWM 4n: Canticle: Magnificat (no recording))
- NAWM 8. Adam de la Halle,
Robins m'aime, rondeau or trouvère song, from Jeu de Robins et
de Marion (ca. 1284)
- NAWM 9. Bernart de
Ventadorn,
Can vei la lauzeta mover, troubadour song (ca. 1170-80)
- NAWM 10. Comtessa
[Beatriz] de Dia,
A chantar, canso or troubadour song (second half of the 12th
century)
- NAWM 11. Hans Sachs,
Nachdem David war redlich, Meisterlied (ca. 1520-76)
- NAWM 12.
Istampita Palamento, istampita or estampie (14th century)
Sequentia
Early Music Archive
ADR9747, track 14
- NAWM 15. Alleluia Pascha nostrum, with sections
in chant, organum, discant, and motet (portions by Léonin, late 12th century,
with later substitutions)
- (NAWM 15a: Plainchant (no recording))
- NAWM 15b: Léonin,
Organum duplum
- NAWM 15c: Anonymous clausula on nostrum (no
recording)
- NAWM 15e: Substitute clausula on la of the word
immolatus (no recording)
- NAWM 16. Pérotin,
Sederunt, organum quadruplum (late 12th or early 13th century),
respond only
- NAWM 17. Anonymous,
Ave virgo virginum, conductus (13th century)
- NAWM 15. Alleluia Pascha nostrum, with sections
in chant, organum, discant, and motet (portions by Léonin, late 12th century,
with later substitutions)
Musica Mensurata
Early Music Archive
ADU7537, track 11
- NAWM 22. Jacopo da
Bologna,
Fenice fù, madrigal (mid-14th century)
- NAWM 23. Francesco Landini,
Non avrà ma' pietà, ballata (second half of 14th century)
- NAWM 24. Baude Cordier,
Belle, bonne, sage, rondeau (early 15th century)
- Supplemental Recording #3:
Johannes Ciconia,
Sus une fontayne, virelai (ca. 1390)
Ensemble Project Ars Nova
CD .C5712 D.1-2, track 18
Burgundy and Dufay
- NAWM 27. Guillaume Dufay,
Resvellies vous, ballade (1423)
- NAWM 28. Guillaume Dufay,
Conditor alme siderum, motet (hymn paraphrase) in alternation with
chant (middle third of the 15th century)
- (NAWM 29a. Guillaume Dufay,
Se la face ay pale, ballade (1430s))
- NAWM 29b. Guillaume Dufay,
Missa Se la face ay pale, cantus firmus Mass, excerpt: Gloria (ca.
1450s)
- NAWM 30. Gilles Binchois,
De plus en plus, chanson (ca. 1425)
The Tallis Scholars, directed by
Peter Phillips
Early Music Archives
BAF2440, tracks 1-6
- NAWM 32. Josquin des Prez,
Missa Pange lingua, Mass (ca. 1520), excerpts:
Kyrie and part of the
Credo
- NAWM 33. Josquin des Prez,
De profundis clamavi ad te, motet (first or second decade of the
16th century)
- NAWM 35. Marco Cara,
Io non compro più speranza, frottola) (ca. 1500)
- NAWM 36. Jacob Arcadelt,
Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal (ca. 1538)
- NAWM 37. Adrian Willaert,
Aspro core, madrigal (ca. 1540s)
- NAWM 38. Cipriano de Rore,
Da le belle contrade d'oriente, madrigal (1566)
- NAWM 39. Luca Marenzio,
Solo e pensoso, madrigal (ca. 1599)
- NAWM 40. Carlo Gesualdo,
"Io parto" e non più dissi, madrigal (ca. 1600)
Hespèrion XX, directed by Jorge
Savall
Early Music Archive
ACT6508, track 16
- NAWM 51. Giulio Caccini,
Vedrò 'l mio sol, madrigal for voice and continuo (ca. 1600)
- NAWM 52. Jacopo Peri, Le musiche sopra l'Euridice,
opera, excerpts (1600)
Nigel Rogers (Orfeo) and other
soloists with Chiaroscuro, London Baroque, and The London Cornett & Sackbut
Ensemble, directed by Nigel Rogers, Charles Medlam, and Theresa Caudle
CD .M7812 A.6-15, disc 1, tracks 1-18
- NAWM 54. Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo, opera,
excerpts (1607)
- NAWM 55. Claudio Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di
Poppea, opera, excerpt:
Act I, Scene 3 (1642)
- NAWM 56. Marc' Antonio
Cesti, Orontea, excerpt:
"Intorno all' idol mio," aria (1649)
- NAWM 57. Barbara Strozzi,
Lagrime mie, cantata (published 1659)
- NAWM 59. Lodovico Grossi
da Viadana,
O Domine Jesu Christe, sacred concerto (ca. 1602)
- NAWM 60. Alessandro Grandi,
O quam tu pulchra es, motet (1625)
- NAWM 61. Giacomo Carissimi, Historia di Jephte,
oratorio, excerpt (ca. 1650)
- NAWM 67. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Le bourgeois
gentilhomme: Ballet des nations, court ballet, excerpts (1670)
- NAWM 68. Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide, opera,
excerpts (1686)
Italian, English, and German opera and secular vocal music in the middle
Baroque
- NAWM 66. Alessandro
Scarlatti, Griselda, opera excerpt:
Mi rivedi, o selva ombrosa da capo aria (1721)
- NAWM 69. Henry Purcell,
Dido and Aeneas, opera, excerpt:
Act III, Scene 2 (1689)
- NAWM 70. Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen,
semi-opera, excerpt:
Hark! The ech'ing air, air (1692)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, organ
Early Music Archive
ACK1602, disc 1, track 19
- NAWM 71. Dieterich
Buxtehude,
Praeludium in E, BuxWV 141, prelude for organ (late 17th century)
- NAWM 72. Dieterich Buxtehude,
Danket dem Herrn, BuxWV 181, chorale variations (late 17th century)
- NAWM 73. François Couperin, Vingt-cinquième ordre
[Twenty-fifth Order], keyboard suite (1730)
- NAWM 78. Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie,
opera (1733), excerpt:
Ah! faut-il
Monica Huggett, violin, with the
Raglan Baroque Players
CD .V855 G4.26, disc 2, tracks 1-3
- NAWM 76. Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso in G Minor,
Op. 3, No. 2, excerpts (published 1712)
- NAWM 77. Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin, Op. 9,
No. 2, excerpt:
Largo (second movement) (published 1728)
Music in the Americas: From New Spain to New England
Chanticleer and Chanticleer
Sinfonia, cond. by Joseph Jennings
CAX2920, track 22
Judith Malafronte, Venus; Ellen
Hargis, Adonis; and the Harp Consort, directed by Andrew Lawrence-King
CAG3076, tracks 24-26
- NAWM 81. Johann Sebastian Bach, Wachet auf, ruft uns
die Stimme, cantata (1731)
- NAWM 82. Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
(assembled in 1747-49), excerpts from the Credo
- NAWM 83. George Frideric
Handel, Giulio Cesare [Julius Caesar], opera, excerpt:
Recitative and Aria: V'adoro pupille (1724)
- NAWM 84. George Frideric Handel, Saul, excerpt:
Act II, Scene 10 (1739)
This listening list was designed by Patrick
Warfield
and J. Peter Burkholder and is maintained by
Rika Asai
Copyright 1997 by J. Peter Burkholder and
Patrick Warfield