Middle Schools

   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