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A	Aboriginal Music of Australia African-American String-Band Music Ambrosian Hymn Anthony Braxton Aretha Franklin sings “Respect” Argentinian Tango Music Arrangements: Otis Redding's “Respect” Art Ensemble of Chicago “Ave Maria” by Schubert (1825) Aymaran Music, Bolivia

B

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Bach's Goldberg Variations
Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Bach's Toccata in F, from BWV 540
Bach's Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042
Bagpipe Music of the Netherlands
Bagpipe of Eastern Europe
Baka Pygmy Music of Cameroon
Balachander Plays the Vina
Banda Music of the Central African Republic
Banjo
Banyuwangi Music of Indonesia
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
Baul Music of Bangladesh
Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major, op. 58
Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 32, op. 111
Beethoven's Quartet in B flat, op. 130
Beethoven's Symphony no. 9
Beethoven's Symphony no. 9
Beniamino Gigli Sings Puccini
Berlin's “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Berlioz's "March to the Scaffold"
Bessie Smith Sings Handy's “St Louis Blues”
Bhajan by Mira Bai
Bill Evans's “Gloria's Step”
Bluegrass Music: Bill Monroe
Bluegrass Style Banjo
Blues Harmonica Player Sonny Terry
Blues Singer Ma Rainey
Boccherini's Quintets with Double Bass
Brahms's Symphony no. 4 in E Minor, op. 98
Brass Band Music of Belgium
Brukdon Music from Belize
Buxtehude's Jubilate Domino
Byrd's In Tempore Paschali

C

C. P. E. Bach's Die Israeliten in Der Wüste
Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero
Cage's Music of Changes
Cajun Music Played by Beausoleil
Calypso Singer Mighty Sparrow
Carissimi's Jonas
Carnival Music of Cuba
Catalani: La Wally
Charles Brown
Chick Corea: "500 Miles High"
Chick Webb’s Big Band
Chinese Opera
Chopin's Mazurka op. 68, no. 2
Chopin’s Nocturne op. 15, no. 2
Choral Music of Tonga
Classical Dance Music of Cambodia
Classical Dance Music of South India
Classical Drum Music of Japan
Classical Gagaku Music of Japan
Classical Gamelan of Java
Classical Khyal of North India
Classical Music of Azerbaijan
Classical Music of Morocco
Classical Music of Uzbekistan
Classical Noh Drama of Japan
Classical Patt Waing of Myanmar (Burma)
Classical Peking Opera
Classical Pinpeat of Cambodia
Classical Pipa Music of China
Classical Qin Music of China
Classical Qin Music of China
Classical Santur Music of Iran
Classical Saung-Gauk of Myanmar (Burma)
Classical Saz Music of Turkey
Classical Sitar of North India, Played by Ravi Shankar
Classical Vocal Music of Iran
Clementi's Sonata in G Major, op. 25 no. 2
Contemporary Jazz Singing
Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man
Corelli's Concerto Grosso op. 6, no. 8 in G Minor
Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin
Court Music of Uganda

D	Dave Brubeck Quartet David Bowie Debussy's La Mer Desprez's Missa Pange Lingua Die Walküre Disco Music by Sylvester Doc Watson Plays “Every Day Dirt” Doc Watson Sings “Little Omie Wise” Dowland's Ayres Dowland's Lachrimae Antiquae Dufay's Missa L’homme armé Dunstable's Speciosa Facta Es

E	Early Rock and Roll: Elvis Presley Electric Piano Electronic Keyboard Elgar's Enigma Variations Enrico Caruso Epic Singing of Turkmenistan Epic Song of Bhutan Etta Baker Plays “Crow Jane” Excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony no. 3, Eroica

F

Fauré's Requiem Mass
Folk Guitar of the Bahamas
Folk Music of El Salvador
Folk Music of Kyrgyzstan
Folk Music of Slovakia
Folk Music of Tuvalu
Folk Song of Estonia
Foster's “Old Folks at Home”
Francesco Landini: Lasso! per mie fortuna
Yehudi Menuhin
Funeral Music of the Côte d'Ivoire
Fusion Jazz: Flora Purim

G

Georgian Choral Music
Gesualdo's “Dolcissima Mia Vita”
Ghatam
Gil Evans
Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
Glenn Miller on the Trombone
Glenn Miller's “In the Mood”
Gluck's Echo and Narcissus
Górecki's Symphony no. 3
Gospel Music: The Swan Silvertones
Grace Slick
Grainger's Ramble
“Greensleeves”
Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Chant: Alleluia
Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite no. 1

H

Handel's Messiah
Handel's Rinaldo
Handel's Water Music
Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, op. 76, no. 3, Emperor
Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, op. 76, no. 3, Emperor
Haydn's Symphony no. 104 in D Major, London
Haydn's Symphony no. 104 in D Major, London
Haydn's Farewell Symphony
Healing Music of Somalia
Honky-Tonk: George Jones
Hurdy-Gurdy

I	Inuit Throat Game of Canada "Iudicii Signum"

J

J. S. Bach's Ein' Feste Burg
Jazz Bandleader Count Basie
Jazz Bandleader Fletcher Henderson
Jazz Bandleader Jimmie Lunceford
Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus
Jazz Bassist Paul Chambers
Jazz Composer Duke Ellington
Jazz Composer Thelonious Monk
Jazz Drummer Art Blakey
Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery
Jazz Musician Sidney Bechet
Jazz Pianist Art Tatum
Jazz Pianist Cecil Taylor
Jazz Pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines
Jazz Pianist Horace Silver
Jazz Pianist Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner
Jazz Saxophonist Charlie Parker
Jazz Saxophonist Jan Garbarek
Jazz Saxophonist John Coltrane
Jazz Saxophonist Sonny Rollins
Jazz Saxophonist Wayne Shorter
Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis
Jewish Klezmer Music
Jim Reeves: “I’m Gettin’ Better”
Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus
John Tavener's The Protecting Veil
Johnson Mountain Boys
Jug-Band Music

K	Kaluli Music of Papua New Guinea Kern's “They Didn't Believe Me” King Oliver's “Dippermouth Blues” King Sunny Ade Performs Nigerian Juju Music !Kung San Music of Botswana

L

La Traviata
Lata Mangeshkar
Latin American Guitar
Lead Belly Sings “Goodnight Irene”
Ligeti's Lux Aeterna
Lightnin' Hopkins Sings the Blues
Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Little Richard
Louis Armstrong Plays “Melancholy Blues”
Louis Armstrong Plays “Potato Head Blues”
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
Lully's Little Motets

M

Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde
Mariachi Reyes del Aserradero
Marian Anderson Sings Saint-Saëns
Marian Anderson Sings Saint-Saëns
Marimba Music of Honduras
Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 4 in A Major, Italian
Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 4 in A Major, Italian
Merengue of the Dominican Republic
Milhaud’s La muse ménagère
Minstrel Music
Modern Jazz Quartet
Monteverdi's Orfeo
Monteverdi's Vespers
Monteverdi's Zefiro Torna
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte, K. 588
Mozart's Horn Concerto no.4
Mozart's Requiem in D Minor
Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Mozart's The Magic Flute
Music from Kiribati
Music of Bahrain’s Pearl-Divers
Music of China’s Miao People
Music of Samoa
Music of Sri Lanka
Mussorgsky's St John's Night on the Bare Mountain

N	Nagasvaram Native American Music of Argentina Neo-Traditional Music of Tanzania New Orleans Rhythm and Blues

O	Orchestration: Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony Orchestration: Wagner's Tristan Prelude Ornette Coleman

P

Panpipe Music of Bolivia
Panpipes of the Solomon Islands
Parliament: "Dr Funkenstein"
Parry's I Was Glad
Partch's Yankee Doodle Fantasy
Pérotin's Viderunt Omnes
Pete Seeger Sings “Little Boxes”
Philippe de Vitry: Vos quid admiramini
Popular Benga Music of Kenya
Popular Brass Band Music of Serbia
Popular Chimurenga of Zimbabwe
Popular Dance of the Dominican Republic
Popular Fuji Music of Nigeria
Popular Highlife Music of Ghana
Popular Jaipongan of Sunda
Popular Jig of Ireland
Popular Juju Music of Nigeria
Popular Kroncong Music of Java
Popular Music in India
Popular Music of Bosnia
Popular Music of Nicaragua
Popular Music of Palau
Popular Music of Scotland
Popular Music of Sierra Leone
Popular Music of Sudan
Popular Raï Music of Algeria
Popular Samba Music of Brazil
Popular Sega of Réunion
Popular Song of Argentina
Popular Song of Costa Rica
Popular Songo Music of Cuba
Popular Soukous Music of Congo
Popular Taarab Music of Zanzibar
Popular Vocal Music of Latvia
Popular Vocal Music of South Africa
Popular Wedding Music of Bulgaria
Popular Zouk Music of Martinique
Popular Zulu Jive of South Africa
Prima Prattica: Palestrina
Prokofiev's Symphony no. 1
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Puccini's Turandot *
Puerto Rican Salsa Music
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Pygmy Music of the Central African Republic

R

Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Raga
Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin
Rameau's Harpsichord Suites, Book 1
Rapsodia Argentina
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé
Rebétika Music of Greece
Recording by Alessandro Moreschi
Reggae Musician Bob Marley
Reich's Tehillim
Rhythm and Blues Singer Lloyd Price
Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra
Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade, op. 35
Ritual Healing Music of Malawi
Ritual Jívaro Music of Ecuador
Ritual Vodun Music of Haiti
Rossini's Semiramide Overture
Rossini, The Barber of Seville

S

Sacred Buddhist Chant of Japan
Sacred Christian Music of Armenia
Sacred Christian Music of Nigeria
Sacred Christian Music of Russia
Sacred Coptic Music of Egypt
Sacred Islamic Chant
Sacred Jewish Cantillation
Sacred Jewish Shofar Call
Sacred Sufi Music of Pakistan
Sacred Sufi Music of Syria
Sacred Sufi Ney Music of Turkey
Sammartini's Symphony in A Major
Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor, K. 519
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
Schubert's “Seligkeit”
Schubert's String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, op. 163
Schubert's Symphony no. 8 in B Minor, Unfinished
Schubert’s “The Organ Grinder”
Schumann's Dichterliebe
Schütz's Italian Madrigals
Sessions's Symphony no. 5
Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5, op. 47
Sinawi Music of Korea
Sonata Form: Development
Sonata Form: Exposition
Sonata Form: Introduction
Soul Music: Booker T. and the MG's
Sousa's “Stars and Stripes Forever”
Stan Getz, “All the Things You Are”
Stan Getz's “Crazy Chords”
Steel Drums of Trinidad and Tobago
Strauss, Salome
Sumer is Icumen In
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra
Sundanese Music of Indonesia

T

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Telemann's Recorder Suite in A Minor
Temiar Music of Malaysia
The Platters: "(You've Got) That Magic Touch"
The Surfaris Perform "Wipe Out"
Traditional Accordion of Sardinia
Traditional Asante Music of Ghana
Traditional Bala Music of Guinea
Traditional Balalaika of Russia
Traditional Ballad of England
Traditional Ballads: “Lord Baseman”
Traditional Bandoneon Music of Uruguay
Traditional Bedouin Music
Traditional Berber Music of Algeria
Traditional Carol of Belarus
Traditional Chinese Music of Malaysia
Traditional Chinese Shawm Music
Traditional Choral Music of Albania
Traditional Cornish Reel of England
Traditional Dance Music of Colombia
Traditional Dance Music of Oman
Traditional Dance of Afghanistan
Traditional Dance of Mexico
Traditional Dance of Romania
Traditional Dance of Ukraine
Traditional Drum Music of Benin
Traditional Drumming of Burundi
Traditional Drumming of South India
Traditional Epic Song of Egypt
Traditional Epic Song of Mongolia
Traditional Epic Song of the Kurds
Traditional Fado Song of Portugal
Traditional Flamenco of Spain
Traditional Folk Music of Denmark
Traditional Fulani Music of Benin
Traditional Gamelan of Bali
Traditional Gamelan of Bali
Traditional Hausa Music of Nigeria
Traditional Huayno Music of Peru
Traditional Jali Music of Mali
Traditional Kantele of Finland
Traditional Khaen Music of Laos
Traditional Kora Music of Gambia
Traditional Krar Music of Ethiopia
Traditional Marimba of Guatemala
Traditional Mbira of Zimbabwe
Traditional Mbira of Zimbabwe
Traditional Mento of Jamaica
Traditional Music of Comoros
Traditional Music of France
Traditional Music of Germany
Traditional Music of Hungary
Traditional Music of Kazakhstan
Traditional Music of Mongolia
Traditional Music of Tajikistan
Traditional Music of Thailand
Traditional Music of the Appalachians
Traditional Music of the Kwakiutl
Traditional Music of the Philippines
Traditional Music of Yemen
Traditional Nyckelharpa of Sweden
Traditional Polka of Poland
Traditional Pygmy Music of Congo
Traditional Saami Joik of Norway
Traditional Sea Shanty
Traditional Shape-note Hymn
Traditional Singing of Bulgaria
Traditional Singing of Switzerland
Traditional Song of Romania
Traditional Spiritual
Traditional Swazi Music, South Africa
Traditional Tamborito of Panama
Traditional Tarantella of Italy
Traditional Teda Music of Chad
Traditional Throat Singing of Tuva
Traditional Timbila of Mozambique
Traditional Tuareg Music of Niger
Traditional 'ud Music of Egypt
Traditional Vai Music of Liberia
Traditional Valiha of Madagascar
Traditional Valiha of Madagascar
Traditional Vocal Music of France
Traditional Vocal Music of France
Traditional Vocal Music of Pakistan
Traditional Vocal Music of Russia
Traditional Wedding Music of Cyprus
Traditional Wolof Music of Senegal
Traditional Yi Music of China
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis

V	Verdi's Aïda Verdi's La Traviata Village Music of Montenegro Violinist L. Subramaniam Vivaldi's The Four Seasons Vocal Music of Fiji Vocalist Luisa Tetrazzini

W

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Walton's Symphony no. 1
“We Shall Overcome”
Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra
Weelkes's When David Heard that Absalom was Slain
Welsh Folk Song
Welsh Harp Music
Wilson Pickett Sings “I Can’t Stop”
Wolf's “Das Ständchen”
Woody Guthrie Sings “This Land is Your Land”
Work Songs

Y	“Yankee Doodle” Yemenite Jewish Music of Israel

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