Listening Assignments
2024-2025 School Year Listening
Listening 1 (Wed/Thurs 8/28 + 8/29)
String Quartet Opus 18, No.4 1st movement. By Beethoven.
2023-2024
Beginner Orchestra
- Quarter 1 (LW means Listening and Writing)
LW 1 Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude, by J.S. Bach
LW 2 Piano Trio in G Minor: Finale, by Frederic Chopin
LW 3
- Quarter 2
LW 1
LW 2
LW 3
- Quarter 3
LW 1 String Quartet No. 12 in F major, "American" 4th mvt: Finale, By Antonin Dvorak
LW 2 String Quartet No. 2, 1st mvt., By Felix Mendelssohn
LW 3
- Quarter 4
LW 1 Symphony No. 7 in A Major - 2nd movement, Allegretto, by Beethoven
LW 2
LW 3
Intermediate Orchestra
- Quarter 1 (LW means Listening and Writing)
LW 1 Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude, by J.S. Bach
LW 2 Piano Trio in G Minor: Finale, by Frederic Chopin
LW 3
- Quarter 2
LW 1
LW 2
LW 3
- Quarter 3
LW 1 String Quartet No. 12 in F major, "American" 4th mvt: Finale, By Antonin Dvorak
LW 2 String Quartet No. 2, 1st mvt., By Felix Mendelssohn
LW 3
- Quarter 4
LW 1 Symphony No. 7 in A Major - 2nd movement, Allegretto, by Beethoven
LW 2
LW 3
Advanced Orchestra
- Quarter 1 (LW means Listening and Writing)
LW 1 Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude, by J.S. Bach
LW 2 Piano Trio in G Minor: Finale, by Frederic Chopin
LW 3
- Quarter 2
LW 1
LW 2
LW 3
- Quarter 3
LW 1 String Quartet No. 12 in F major, "American" 4th mvt: Finale, By Antonin Dvorak
LW 2 String Quartet No. 2, 1st mvt., By Felix Mendelssohn
LW 3
- Quarter 4
LW 1 Symphony No. 7 in A Major - 2nd movement, Allegretto, by Beethoven
LW 2
LW 3
below are links for 2022-2023 school year listening:
August 22-26 String Quartet No.13 in A minor (2nd movement), by Schubert
September 5-9 Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, by Mendelssohn
October 24-28 (go to 22:30 time mark to listen to last movement only) Trio in G Minor, Op. 8: IV Finale: Allegretto, by Chopin
November 14-18 (listen until 7:05) Violin concerto "Eleven Eleven": I. Grave. Animato, by Danny Elfman
January 23-27 Symphony No. 7 in A Major - 2nd movement, Allegretto, by Beethoven
February 6-10 Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op 67 - 1st movement: Allegro con brio, by Beethoven
April 4-7 Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber
April 17-21 Four Seasons Summer violin concerto: 3rd movement Presto, by Antonio Vivaldi
May 1-5 The Planets: Mercury, by Gustav Holst