All of the music studied in class is available here, organized alphabetically by composer/performer’s last name:

  • Cream
  • Duke Ellington
  • Billie Holiday
  • Robert Johnson
  • Scott Joplin
  • Olivier Messaien
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Paul Whiteman

 

Cream, Crossroads (1968)

 

Duke Ellington, Cotton Club Stomp (1929)

 

 

Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit (1939)

The text being sung is available here: 13 texts – johnson, holiday

 

Robert Johnson, Cross Roads Blues (1936)

Take 1 — the text being sung is available here: 13 texts – johnson, holiday

 

Take 2

 

Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag (1899)

 

Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time, 8. In Praise of the Immortality of Jesus (1940)

 

Alexander Scriabin, Sonata-Fantasy No. 2, Op. 19 (1898)

 

Paul Whiteman, Dardanella (1928)