Postwar Crosscurrents
Listening Selections
The following works are covered in this textbook chapter. Note the selections available for streaming, below. You will need to login or activate your registration code in order to access the available works.
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| nawm selection |
nawm title |
| 183 |
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Anthropology (Available on CDs only) |
| 184 |
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, first movement |
| 185 |
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, opera, excerpt: end of Act III (Available on CDs only) |
| 186 |
Samuel Barber: Hermit Songs, no. 8: The Monk and His Cat (Available on CDs only) |
| 187 |
John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes, excerpt: Sonata V |
| 188 |
John Cage: Music of Changes I, for piano (Available on CDs only) |
| 189 |
Morton Feldman: Projection I, for cello (Available on CDs only) |
| 190 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kreuzspiel, first section |
| 191 |
Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans ma?tre, movement 6: "Bourreaux de solitude" |
| 192 |
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III for female voice |
| 193 |
George Crumb: Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land, excerpts: Image 4: Devil-Music; Image 5: Danse macabre |
| 194 |
Milton Babbitt: Philomel, section Milton Babbitt: Philomel, section I (Available on CDs only) |
| 195 |
Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima |
| 196 |
Karel Husa: Music for Prague 1968, for concert band, first movement: Introduction and Fanfare: Adagio (Available on CDs only) |