Here are links to all the Lesson Plan audio for the Class Notes Video, Major and Minor -- What's the Difference?
LISTEN A Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra; Theodore Kuchar, conductor
LISTEN Hungarian Dance No. 3
Johannes Brahms
Sabrina-Vivian Hopcker, violin; Fabio Bidini, piano
LISTEN Black Angels I. Departure (excerpt)
George Crumb
Kronos Quartet
LISTEN The Banshee (excerpt)
Henry Cowell
Cheryl Seltzer, piano
LISTEN Three Pieces for cello and piano, No. 1 Modéré
Nadia Boulanger
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello; José Gallardo, piano
LISTEN The Planets: Mars
Gustav Holst
London Symphony Orchestra; Gustav Holst, conductor
LISTEN Allegro Barbaro
Béla Bartók
Philip Evans, piano
LISTEN Prelude No. 8, Op. 23
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
LISTEN Five Preludes for Guitar No. 5 in D Major
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Juan Carlos Laguna, guitar
LISTEN Thais Act II. Meditation
Jules Massenet
Hans Kalafusz, violin; Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
LISTEN Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano I. Allegro ma non troppo
Nino Rota
Ensemble Nino Rota
LISTEN Three Preludes No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante con moto e poco rubato
George Gershwin
Rogers Shields, piano
LISTEN Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (excerpt)
Krzysztof Penderecki
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor
LISTEN Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 IV. Allegro non troppo
Dmitri Shostakovich
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra; Alexander Dmitriev, conductor
LISTEN Elegie, Op. 24
Gabriel Fauré
Anne Gastinel, cello; Orchestre National De Lyon; Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
LISTEN The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Paul, lautenwerck
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