Raum, Elizabeth (1945-)
Female, Canadian composer. More about Elizabeth Raum here.
Sweet Dances for Unaccompanied Tuba (2002) – NON-PD
Topics: Mvt. 1: Ternary form, Tritone sub; Mvt. 2: Ternary form, linear analysis; Mvt. 3: Ternary form; Mvt. 4: Ternary form
Score: Non-Public domain
Copyright: 2002, Elizabeth Raum
Audio : On Elizabeth Raum’s website.
Four Movements:
1. Blew Tango
2. Dot Polka
3. Waltzin’ Matuba
4. A Hard Knight’s Day
More about Sweet Dances here.
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
French, male
Le tombeau de Couperin, No. 4, Rigaudon (1914-1917)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Ravel-Rigaudon
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Le tombeau de Couperin, No. 5, Menuet (1914-1917)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Ravel-Menuet
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Pavane pour une infante Defunte (1899)
Topics: Rondo form
Sheet Music: Ravel-Pavane
Publisher: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1924
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
String Quartet in F Major, Mvt 1: Allegro Moderato (1902-1903)
Topics: Sonata form
Score: Ravel-String Quartet in F Mvt1
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube
Reichardt, Louise (1779-1826)
German, female. Her bio can be found here.
Herr, schaue auf uns nieder
Topics: common tone o7
Score: Reichart-Herr, schaue auf uns nieder
Publisher: Jürgen Knuth, 1924.
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0
Audio : YouTube
Weihnachten
Topics: modulation, Binary form
Score: Reichart-Weihnachten
Arranger: Jürgen Knuth
Publisher: Altena: Jürgen Knuth
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0
Note: Part of the Werner Icking Music Collection
Audio: Finale
Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979) and Hammerstein II, Oscar (1895-1960)
American, male; Official website is here.
‘Do-Re-Mi’ (1959) – NON-PD
Topics: secondary dominants
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1959, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright renewed.
Audio: YouTube: From the Movie The Sound of Music.
Written for the 1959 musical The Sound of Music. This muscial was later made into a movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke (1965).
‘The Surrey with the Fringe on Top’ (1943) – NON-PD
Topics: 32-bar song form, vi-ii-V-I progression
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1943 by Williamson Music. (Copyright renewed).. In: The Real Book, 6th ed. Milwaukee, WI: Hall Leonard, 2004. ISBN: 978-0634060380.
Audio: Youtube, From the movie version of Oklahoma!, Performed by Gordon MacRae (Curly) and Shirley Jones (Laurey).
Written for the musical Oklahoma!
Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979) and Hart, Lorenz (1895-1943)
American, male
‘My Funny Valentine’ (1937) – NON-PD
Topics: Modulation between minor/relative major
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1937, Williamson Music and the Estate of Lorenz Hart, USA. In: The Real Book, 6th ed. Milwaukee, WI: Hall Leonard, 2004. ISBN: 978-0634060380
Audio: YouTube, Performed by Ella Fitzgerald
From the musical Babes in Arms (1937)
Sampson, Edgar (1907-1973)
American, male
“Stompin’ at the Savoy” (1933) – NON-PD
Topics: passing diminished 7th, Tritone sub
Score: Non-public domain; See: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp-copyright/2584/
Copyright: Robbins Music Corp, 1936
Audio: YouTube, Performed by Benny Goodman
Sancho, Ignatius (1729-1780)
Black British writer, composer, shopkeeper, and abolitionist. His bio can be found here (British library).
Minuets etc for the Violin, Mandolin, German Flute and Harpsichord (1779)
Topics: Binary, Ternary, rounded binary form
Score: Sancho-Minuets
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: YouTube: Minuet No 4
Twelve Country Dances
Topics: Binary form, Ternary form
Score: Sancho-12 Country Dances
Publisher: Steven Naylor Editions, 2020.
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
Audio: Youtube
The dances can be seen in this video: Duchess of Devonshire Reel, Mungo’s Delight
Schubert, Franz (1979-1828)
Austrian, male. His bio is found here.
36 Originaltanze, D. 365, op. 9 no 2: Waltz in Ab Major (1816)
Topics: Binary form, Aug 6, enharmonic spellings
Score: Schubert-Waltz in Ab Major D365 op9 No2
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, starts at 00:37
Die Liebe, D 210 (1815)
Topics: Secondary Dominants, Aug 6
Score: Schubert-Die Liebe, D 210
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Erlkonig D. 328 (1815)
Topics: Neapolitan, secondary dominants
Score: Schubert-Erlkonig.
Publisher: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895. Plate F.S. 504-507. Reprinted-New York: E.F. Kalmus, No.1076, n.d.(1950).
Copyright;Public Domain
Audio: Youtube, sung by Baritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Mein, No. 11 from Die Schone Mullerin, D. 795 (1823)
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Schubert-Die Schone Mullerin-Mein
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1753
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Moment musicaux, D 780, No 6 in Ab major (1823-28)
Topics: Ternary form – compound, Rounded binary, Aug 6, Neapolitan, cto7, enharmonic respelling
Score: Schubert-Moment Musicaux
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1888
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Schwanengesang, D. 957, No 13: Der Doppelganger (1828)
Topics: Aug 6, Neapolitan, secondary dominants
Score: Schubert – Doppelganger
Publisher: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895. Plate F.S. 920-933.
Copyright-Public Domain
Lyrics: Oxford Lieder – translations
Audio: Youtube, performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Sonatina for Piano and Violin, Op. post. 137 No. 2, D385, III (1816)
Topics: Rounded binary form
Score: Schubert Sonatina for piano and Violin
Publisher: Carl Fischer, 1906
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
Audio: YouTube, III starts at 13:42
String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, Mvt IV: Presto (1824)
Topics: Rondo form
Score: Schubert-String quartet D810 Mvt4
Publisher: Leipzig: E. Eulenburg, n.d.
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
Audio: YouTube, Performed by Meridian Ensemble String Quartet, Mvt 4 begins at 31:40
Symphony No. 5 D. 485, Mvt 1 (1816)
Topics: Sonata form, Secondary Dominants, Aug 6, Mixture
Score: Schubert-Symphony 5, Mvt 1 (piano version)
Publisher: Vienna: Universal Edition, n.d.(ca.1902).
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Wanderers Nachtlied, D, 768 (1822)
Topics: One-part Form
Score: Schubert: Wanderers Nachtlied
Publisher: Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895. Copyright: Public Domain
Lyrics: Oxford Lieder – translations
Audio: Youtube, Performed by Jonas Kaufmann
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Russian, Male
Five Preludes, Op. 74 No. 1
Topics: octatonic scale
Score: Scriabin-Prelude 1 Op74
Publisher: A.N. Skryabin: Polnoe sobranie sochinenii dlia fortepiano, vol.3; Moscow: Muzgiz, 1953.
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio : YouTube, Performed by Evgeny Zarafiants
Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary (1858-1944)
British female composer, conductor, author and Suffragette.
See more on Dame Ethel Smyth here.
Three Moods of the Sea, 1. Requies (Meerestille) (1913)
Topics: Ternary form, Whole tone scales
Score: 3 Moods of the Sea, 1. Requies (1913)
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio : YouTube
Three Moods of the Sea, 3. After Sunset (Nacht dem Sturm) (1913)
Topics: Binary form (strophic)
Score: Three Moods of the Sea, 3. After Sunset (Nacht dem Sturm) (1913)
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio : YouTube
Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7, Mvt. 1 (1887)
Topics: Sonata form (non-standard), Augmented 6th
Score: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op 7, Mvt. 1: Allegro moderato (1887)
Copyright: Public Domain
(Vienna: Universal Edition, 1923.)
Audio : YouTube, Tasmyn Little, Violin
Still, William Grant (1895-1978)
African-American composer. Click here for information on William Grant Still.
Afro-American Symphony (1930) – NON-PD
Topics: Arch Form, Blues progression
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: held by Novello & Co. Ltd.
Audio: Youtube, with score
No. 2, Summerland, from Three Visions: A Suite for Piano (1935) – NON-PD
Topics: Ternary form
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: Held by William Grant Still Music
Audio: Youtube
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Russian, male, French citizenship
Dirge-Canons from In Memoriam Dylan Thomas – Prelude and Postlude (1954) – NON-PD
Topics: 12-tone (6 tone row)
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1954, Boosey & Hawkes
Audio : YouTube
Row: E Eb C C# D
Strayhorn, Billy (1915-1967)
African-American, male
‘Take the A Train’ (1939) – NON-PD
Topics: secondary dominants, passing diminished 7th
Score: Non-public domain
Copyright: 1941, Music Sales Corp (ASCAP) and Tempo Music inc. In: The Real Book, 6th ed. Milwaukee, WI: Hall Leonard, 2004. ISBN: 978-0634060380
Audio: Youtube, Performed by Dike Ellington Orchestra
Signature song of the Duke Ellington Orchestra
Szymanwska, Maria Agata (1789-1831)
Polish, female. Her bio can be found here.
March 1 from Six Marches (1819)
Topics: Compound ternary form, Aug 6, Secondary Dominants
Score: Szymanwska-March 1 from Six Marches
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.[1819] Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
March 2 from Six Marches (1819)
Topics: Rondo
Score: Szymanwska-March 2 from Six Marches
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.[1819] Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
March 4 from Six Marches (1819)
Topics: Rondo
Score: Szymanwska-March 4 from Six Marches
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.[1819] Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube
Nocturne in Bb Major
Topics: Rondo form
Score: Szymanwska-Nocturne in Bb Major
Publisher: Schott, [1985].
Copyright: Public Domain
Audio: Youtube