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Chapter 2

John Cage, 4'33"

Chapter 3

Edgar Varèse, Ionisation

Gamelan performance using sléndro scale

Duke Ellington, Anatomy of a Murder

Chapter 4

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, A Musical Joke (4th movement)

Leonard Bernstein, Maria

Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Alfie

J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in D Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

J. S. Bach, Prelude in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Arnold Schoenberg, Second String Quartet

Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître

Chapter 5

Charles Ives, Central Park In the Dark

Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Notre Dame

J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

Palestrina, Kyrie from Pope Marcellus Mass

Maurice Ravel, Bolero

Gyorgy Ligeti, Atmosphères

Steve Reich, Desert Music

Chapter 6

Béla Bartók, Out of Doors

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11

J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in B flat Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Claude Debussy, Valse Romantique

Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in E Major, Op. 28 No. 9

Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Sonata No. 5

Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 15

Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka

Chapter 7

Duke Ellington, Cottontail

Charlie Parker, Groovin' High

Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier's Tale

Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo à la Turk

Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 13

Leonard Bernstein, America

Led Zeppelin, Nobody's Fault But Mine

Led Zeppelin, Black Dog

Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (Part I)

Steve Reich, Piano Phase

Chapter 8

Theme from Shaft

J. S. Bach/Anton Webern, Ricercare

Olivier Messaien, Turangalîla Symphony

Chapter 10

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 10 (1st movement)

Modest Mussorgsky, ‘The Gnome', from Pictures at an Exhibition

Josef Haydn, Symphony No. 94 ('Surprise')

Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings

J. S. Bach, Double Concerto for Violins

Béla Bartók, Piano Concerto No. 2

The Rolling Stones, Not Fade Away

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 25 in G Minor

Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 10 (Third movement)

Led Zeppelin, The Ocean

Aretha Franklin, Say A Little Prayer

Ludwig von Beethoven, ‘Ode to Joy', from Symphony No. 9

The Who, Pinball Wizard

Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf

Frédéric Chopin, Waltz, Op. 64, No. 3

J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C sharp Minor, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Antonín Dvorák, Symphony No. 9 (‘New World'), 4th movement

Bob Dylan, All Along The Watchtower (original)

Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower

Albinoni, Adagio in G Minor

Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World

Dionne Warwick, Walk On By

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata in E flat Major K282

Chapter 11

The Chiffons, He's So Fine

George Harrison, My Sweet Lord

GenJam

GenBebop

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stimmung

Gyorgy Ligeti, Lontano

Pierre Boulez, Structures, Part I

Pandora Radio

Search Inside The Music

Chapter 12

Aniruddh Patel, Music, Language and the Brain (OUP) (with sound samples)

Steve Reich, Different Trains

Chapter 13

Ludwig von Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 (‘Eroica')

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 (1st movement)

Franz Schubert, String Quartet in G Major (2nd movement)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Danse Macabre

Richard Wagner, Parsifal (Prelude)

Gyorgy Ligeti, Artikulation (with visual score)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte