The Listening page includes Youtube and/or Spotify links for each unit’s assigned listening. These may be different from the links included in the textbook! The Youtube and Spotify playlists linked below may use different recordings of the same piece, or lack the piece entirely, based on availability.
Exploring Music Youtube Playlist
Exploring Music Spotify Playlist
Unit 2: What is Music?
| “Bouree” from Suite in E-flat minor, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach | Youtube Spotify |
| Nesaza Shirabe, performed by Tadashi Tajima | Youtube Spotify (different performer) |
| “Over the Rainbow,” performed by Judy Garland | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 3: Elements of Sound and Music
“Summertime,” performed by Leontyne Price, composed by George Gershwin | Youtube Spotify |
| “Amazing Grace,” performed by the Robert Shaw Festival Singers | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 4: Instruments and Music Technology
“Can I Kick It?”, composed and performed by A Tribe Called Quest | Youtube Spotify |
| Song of the Youths, composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 5: US Popular Music
| “Camptown Races,” composed by Stephen Foster | Youtube (Blackface and racist imagery in video) Spotify |
| “West End Blues,” performed by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five | Youtube Spotify |
| “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing,” composed by Duke Ellington | Youtube Spotify |
| “Hound Dog,” performed by Elvis Presley | Youtube Spotify |
| “America,” from West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 6: Song
| “Hold Up,” from Lemonade, performed by Beyoncé | Youtube Spotify |
| “Wandering,” from The Lovely Maid of the Mill, composed by Franz Schubert | Youtube Spotify |
| “Elf King,” composed by Franz Schubert | Youtube Spotify |
| “Pretty Polly,” performed by Dock Boggs | Youtube Spotify |
| “The Sunjata Story,” performed by Djelimady Sissoko | Youtube Spotify (shorter version) |
Unit 7: Sung and Danced Drama
| “You Are Dead,” from Orfeo, composed by Claudio Monteverdi | Youtube Spotify |
| “Hell’s Vengeance Boils in My Heart,” from The Magic Flute, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Youtube Spotify |
| Excerpt from The Tale of the White Snake, written by Tian Han | Youtube (no Spotify version) |
| Excerpts from Act II of The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Youtube Spotify pt. 1 and Spotify pt. 2 |
| “Sacrificial Dance,” from Rite of Spring, composed by Igor Stravinsky | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 8: Listening in Concert
| Allegro con brio (Movement 1) from Symphony No. 5, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven | Youtube Spotify |
| Rhapsody in Blue, composed by George Gershwin | Youtube Spotify |
| Largo, maestoso (Movement 2) from Symphony No. 1 in E minor, composed by Florence Price | Youtube Spotify |
| “The Star-Spangled Banner”, performed by Jimi Hendrix, | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 9: Listening at Home and at Court
| “I Must Sing,” composed by the Countess of Dia | Youtube Spotify |
| “Samâi Shad Araban,” composed by Tanburi Cemil Bey | Youtube Spotify |
| “Flow My Tears,” composed by John Dowland | Youtube Spotify |
| Finale: Presto (Movement 4) from String Quartet, op. 33, no. 4 “The Joke,” composed by Franz Joseph Haydn | Youtube Spotify |
| Andante (Movement 3) from Piano Trio in G minor, composed by Clara Schumann | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 10: Stories Without Words
| “March to the Scaffold” (Movement 4) from Symphonie Fantastique, composed by Hector Berlioz | Youtube Spotify |
| “The Gnome” from Pictures at an Exhibition, composed by Modest Mussorgsky | Youtube Spotify |
| Allegro (Movement 1) from Concerto in E major “Spring”, composed by Antonio Vivaldi | Youtube Spotify |
| Raga Madhuvanti, performed by Anoushka Shankar | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 11: Music and Spiritual Expression
| “Song Boo Cherpa,” performed by the monks of Boudhanath Temple | Youtube Spotify |
| “Elohim Hashivenu,” composed by Salamone Rossi | Youtube Spotify |
| Kol Nidre, performed by Selmar Cerini | Youtube Spotify |
| Kyrie from the Pope Marcellus Mass, composed by Giovanni da Palestrina | Youtube Spotify |
| “Wake up, the voice calls us” from Sleepers, Wake, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach | Youtube Spotify |
Unit 12: Music and Political Expression
| Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, composed by Franz Liszt | Youtube Spotify |
| Largo (Movement 2) from Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World”, composed by Antonín Dvořák | Youtube Spotify |
| “Full Extreme,” performed by Trinidad All Stars | Youtube (no Spotify version) |
| “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana, composed by Carl Orff | Youtube Spotify |
| “Get Up Stand Up,” performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers | Youtube Spotify |
