MOTET Curriculum


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Music Examples

In addition to the sound files available from these pages, ask students to bring in material they're listening to (popular); if done in a classroom situation, then have a vote on which selection to use. Different exercises request different types of music from the students.

Click on the MOTET sound files used in the curriculum:

NOTE: Sound files are available in either RealAudio or AIFF format.

Music Sample

Selection

Real Audio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

opening

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

phrase immediately following opening

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

waltz example from the second movement.

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

example of chord progression, second movement.

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

opening of third movement.

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

repeated note patterns from the last movement.

RealAudio

AIFF

Bell Mahler in Blue Light

motivic quote from third movement, based on Mahler's theme.

RealAudio

AIFF

Beethoven String Quartet Opus 133 Grosse Fugue

opening.

RealAudio.

AIFF

Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8

opening of the Third Movement.

RealAudio

AIFF

John Harbison San Antonio

example of piano accompanying saxophone.

RealAudio

AIFF

John Harbison San Antonio

example of saxophone accompanying piano.

RealAudio

AIFF

John Harbison San Antonio

use of compositional space.

RealAudio

AIFF

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

last movement

RealAudio

AIFF

Quincy Jones Jazz Corner of the Word

(Rap example)

RealAudio

AIFF


Discography

  • Beethoven, The Late String Quartets. Alban Berg Quartet. EMI CDS 7 47135 8.
  • Brahms, The Three Piano Trios. Borodin Trio. Chandos CHAN 8334/5
  • Mahler, Das Lied Von Der Erde, Berliner Philharmoniker, Giulini. Deutsche Grammophon 413 459-2
  • Bell Selections from Mahler in Blue Light. Live Performance in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA. December 8, 1996. Bell, piano, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone, Pamela Frame, 'cello.
  • Harbison selections from San Antonio. Live performance in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA. December 8, 1996. Hui-Min Wang, Piano, Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone.
  • Quincy Jones, Jazz Corner of the Word, from Back on the Block. Quest/Warner 9 26020-2.

 

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