Mode, Scales, Key Signatures, and Modulation
Beethoven, "Fur Elise"
Mozart, Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je Maman"
Schubet,  "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" [Gretchen am Spinnrade"]

Texture
Palestrina, Mass "for brevity" [Missa brevis], Gloria
Weelkes, "Tan ta ra, cries Mars"

Harmony
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, "When I am laid..."
Haydn, Austria (from Hymnal 1982)

Orchestration
Debussy, The Sea [La mer]

 

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Topics and Pieces

Getting started with classical music
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra (1944)

Rhythm and Meter
(various short works)

Melody
Gregorian Chant: "Hail, Queen of Heaven" ["Salve Regina"]
Sequence (plainchant): "Sing, O Zion" ["Lauda Sion"]
Schubert, "The Trout" ["Die Forelle"]
Schubert, "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" [Gretchen am Spinnrade"]
Mozart, A Little Night Music, [Eine kleine Nachtmusik], mvt. 1
Chopin, Nocture, op. 9, no. 2
Haydn, String Quartet, op. 76, no. 3, mvt. 2