Lang, Josephine (1815-1880)
German, female. Longer bio here.
Arabeske, from 3 Klavierstucke (1905)
Topics: Ternary form, Augmented 6 chords
Score: Lang-Arabeske; Carl Grüninger
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, Kerstin Sieben-Kaiser, Piano
Am bache, Op 20 (1859)
Topics: strophic
Score: Lang-Am bache
Publisher: Berlin: Schlesinger, 1859. Plate S. 4819.
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Le Beau, Luise Adolpha (1850-1927)
German, female.
Piano Quartet, Op 28: Mvt. I: Adagio, Allegro con fuoco (1883)
Topics: Rondo, Augmented 6, Neapolitan, enharmonic modulation
Score: LeBeau-Piano Quartet, Op 28, Mvt 1: Adagio, Allegro con fuoco;
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Piano Quartet, Op 28: Mvt. II: Adagio (1883)
Topics: cto7, Augmented 6
Score: LeBeau-Piano Quartet Op 28 II
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, starts at 7:33
Piano Quartet, Op 28: Mvt. III: Tempo di Mazurka (1883)
Topics: Compound Ternary, Modulation
Score: LeBeau-Piano Quartet Op 28 III
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, starts at 14:12
Piano Quartet, Op 28: Mvt. IV: Finale (1883)
Topics: Sonata form
Score; LeBeau-Piano Quartet Op 28 IV
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, starts at 18:14
Romanze fur Violine, Op 35 (1887)
Topics: Augmented 6, cto7, secondary dominants, ternary form
Score: LeBeau-Romanze fur Violine
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Leiber, Jerry (1933-2011) and Mike Stoller (1933-)
American, male
‘Hound Dog’ (1952) – NON-PD
Topics: 12-bar Blues
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1953, Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Audio: YouTube, Performed by Big Mama Thornton
“Hound Dog” is most known as a song by Elvis Presley, but this audio version is by Big Mama Thornton.
Lennon, John (1940-1980) and McCartney, Paul (1942) /Beatles (1960-1970)
British, male
‘Do You Want To Know A Secret?’ (1963) – NON-PD
Topics: Neapolitan
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1963, Northern Songs, MCA Music Limited, UK
Audio: YouTube: Remastered 2009
On album Please Please Me
‘Hey Jude’ (1968) – NON-PD
Topics: Secondary Dominants, turnaround
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
Audio: YouTube, Performed by The Beatles. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group; Remastered 2015
‘Yesterday’ (1965) – NON-PD
Topics: 32-bar song form
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1965, Northern Songs Limited, Blackwood Music Inc. In: The Real Book, 6th ed. Milwaukee, WI: Hall Leonard, 2004. ISBN: 978-0634060380
Audio: Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group, performed by The Beatles
On the album Help! (1968), but in the Unites States first released as a single.
Lerner, Alan Jay (1918-1986) and Frederick Loewe (1901-1986)
American, male
‘Almost Like Being in Love (1947) – NON-PD
Topics: passing diminished 7th (descending), ii-V-I progression, “screendoor” progression – deceptive resolution in ii-V-I progression
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1947, Lerner and Loewe.
Audio: Youtube, From the movie Brigadoon, performed by Gene Kelly.
Written for the musical Brigadoon.
Li Yinghai (1927-2007)
Chinese, male. More on Li Yinghai here.
Music at Sunset (1972) – NON-PD
Topics: Pentatonic
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: Prunus Press USA (January 1, 2017)
Audio: YouTube, Classical Study Music.
Loesser, Frank (1910-1969)
American, male
‘I’ve Never Been in Love Before’ (1950) – NON-PD
Topics: Mixture, Expanded ii-V-I progressions
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1950, Frank Music Corp.
Audio: Youtube (from 1992 Revival of the musical); Licensed to YouTube
A duet from the musical Guys and Dolls (1950)
MacDowell, Edward (1860-1908)
American, male. His bio can be found here.
12 Etudes, Op. 39 (1889-90)
Topics: Ternary
Score: MacDowell – 12 Etudes, Op 39 No 4: Arabeske
Publisher: Reprinted as Schmidt’s Educational Series No.4, Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, 1918. (part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. )
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Mack, Cecil (1873-1944) and Johnson, James P (Jimmy) (1894-1955)
African-American, male
‘Charleston’ (1923)
Topics: Fox trot, Aug 6, cto7, circle of 5ths progression – ragtime progression (I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I)
Score: Mack, Cecil and Johnson, Jimmy, “Charleston” (1923). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Score 208.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/208
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Original recording: originally issued on Victor 19165, recorded in NYC October 10, 1923
From the musical Runnin’ Wild
Mancini, Henry (1924-1994) and Mercer, Johnny (1909-1976)
American, male
‘Days of Wine and Roses’ (1962, renewed) – NON-PD
Topics: vi-ii-V-I progression, stanzas
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1962, WB Music Corp and The Johnny Mercer Foundation.
Audio: YouTube, Intro to the movie. Version sung by Andy Williams (1963).
Written for the movie of the same name. Won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Grammy Awards for Best Song of the Year in 1963.
Martines, Maria (1744-1812)
Austrian, female. Her bio is here.
Piano Sonata in A Major: Mvt I – Allegro
Topics: Sonata form
Score: Martinez, Piano Sonata in A Major, Mvt. I – Allegro
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1878)
Copyright: Public domain
Audio: YouTube
Article on this composition: “Marianna Martines, Sonata in A Major, I (1765)” by L. Poundie Burstein; DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190237028.003.0006 in Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900, Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, eds.
Piano Sonata in A Major: Mvt III – Tempo di Minuetto
Topics: Sonata form
Score: Martinez, Piano Sonata in A Major, Mvt. III – Tempo di Minuetto
Publisher: : Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1878).
Copyright: Public domain
Audio: YouTube
Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt. 1 – Allegro
Topics: Sonata form (abbreviated)
Score: Martinez, Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt 1: Allegro
Publisher: Alte Meister, Vol.3, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1878).
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt. 2: Andante
Topics: Sonata form (abbreviated)
Score: Martinez, Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt 2: Andante
Publisher: Alte Meister, Vol.3, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1878).
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube – at 2:06
Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt. 3: Allegro
Topics: Sonata form (abbreviated)
Score: Martinez, Piano Sonata in E major, Mvt 3: Allegro
Publisher: Alte Meister, Vol.3, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1878).
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube – at 5:52
McLin, Lena J. (1928-)
Black, female composer, music teacher and pastor. Her biography can be found here.
‘Silence,’ No. 1 of from Songs of Love (2002) -NON-PD
Topics: One-part form
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 2002, Kjos Music Press, San Diego, CA
Audio: Youtube
From the album The Unknown Flower – Song Cycles by American Woman Composers of the 20th Century Album, Released 1999
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fleix (1809-1847)
German, male
‘Leider ohne Worte (Song without Words), Op 19b, No 1 Andante con moto (1829-30)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Mendelssohn-Song without words
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
French, male
Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67, No. 2, Botafogo (1920-21)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Milhaud-Saudades do Brasil
Copyright: Public Domain, US only
Audio: Youtube
Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)
African-American, male
‘Self Portrait in Three Colors’ (1957) – NON-PD
Topics: circle of 5ths progression, II-V-I progressions
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1957, Jazz Workshop Inc.
Audio: Youtube, Performed by Charles Mingus (SME (on behalf of Legacy Recordings)
Montgeroult, Helene (1764-1836)
French, female
Piano Sonata 9 in F# minor, Op 5, No 3 (1811)
Topics: Sonata form
Score: Piano Sonata in F# Minor, Op 5. No 3, Mvt I: Allegro Spirotoso
Publisher: Paris: Erard, n.d. [1811].
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Morley, Thomas (1557-1602)
English, Male
Now is the Month of Maying from Balletts for Five Voyces, Book 1, No 3 (1595)
Topics: Binary form
Score: Morley-Now is month of Maying
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
Audio: YouTube
Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781)
Czechoslovakian, male
Ridente la Calma (1877)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Ridente la calma
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1877
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Note: This work was formerly attributed to Wolfgang Mozart (K. 152)