The excerpts on this website are separated into two categories: Main Excerpts and Additional Excerpts. The Main Excerpts are the primary focus of this project and include additional historical, analytical, and pedagogical content.
For a detailed explanation on how the excerpts were chosen and categorized, please see Creating the Excerpt List.
Main Excerpts
- Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
- Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
- Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
- Donizetti: "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore
- Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
- Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 'Haffner'
- Ravel: Bolero
- Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70
- Stauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
- Stravinsky: The Firebird
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
- Wagner: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
Additional Excerpts
- Bartók: Dance Suite, Sz. 77
- Beethoven: Overture No. 3 to the Opera Leonore, Op. 72
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
- Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
- Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
- Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
- Debussy: Iberia
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
- Mahler: Symphony No. 5
- Mahler: Symphony No. 9
- Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61
- Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 'Scottish'
- Mozart: Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter'
- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
- Ravel: Ma mère l’oye
- Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
- Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
- Schönberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
- Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93
- Smetana: The Bartered Bride
- Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20
- Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35
- Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
- Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24
- Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments
- Stravinsky: Pulcinella
- Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
- Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
- Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
- Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture