Ten Musical Pieces from Baroque to Romantic

The high school students in our home school co-op just read a lesson from the Notgrass World History Curriculum about music history.   Here is a selection of 10 pieces from the composers featured in the chapter.  I haven't personally listened to all of these.  Some of them are full-length, and the students might want to just listen to several minutes.  I hope they will be inspired to look up more pieces for these composers and for other composers in these musical periods.  I will try to compile a list of 20th century links soon.

For more information, be sure to visit these classical music sites:

• http://www.classicalarchives.com/
• http://www.classical.net
• http://www.classicalconnect.com/

Baroque

 

• Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons
• George Frederic Handel - "Water Music" Suite in F Major HWV348 (1)
•  Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.1 - i: Allegro Moderato 

Classical

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata - Piano Sonata No. 14
• Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5

Romantic 

•  Antonin Dvorak - New World Symphony
•  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake by the Kirov Ballet
•  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture 
• Chopin - Valentina Igoshina - Fantasie Impromptu