| Renaissance |
Baroque |
Age of Reason |
19th Century |
20th Century |
| Madrigal
lyrics: Weelkes, Morley and Gesualdo |
John Donne
"Batter My Heart"
"Death, Be Not Proud"
"A Hymn to God the Father"
"Go and Catch a Falling Star"
"Since She Whom I Loved"
"Meditation XVII" |
Swift: A
Modest Proposal |
Jane Austen, Sense
and Sensibility (excerpt) Art Song:
Schubert/Goethe, "Der Erlkönig" |
Song cycle:
Schoenberg/Giraud,
Pierrot Lunaire |
Shakespeare sonnets
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"
"My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" |
George Herbert
"Love Bade Me Welcome"
"Redemption" |
Voltaire: "On the Presbyterians |
Program music:
Berlioz,
Symphonie Fantastique |
Aurora Levins Morales, "Child of the Americas" (1986) |
Lutheran
chorale texts: Psalm 46/"A Mighty Fortress is Our God";
"O Sacred Head"
Luther Texts |
Isaac Watts' hymn: "When I Survey the
Wondrous Cross |
Mozart,
Don Giovanni, "Catalog Aria" |
Opera: Verdi's Aida (tomb scene) |
Excerpt from Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2001) |
| Ann
Boleyn poem: "O Death, O Death, Rock Me Asleep" |
Marvel, "To His Coy Mistress" |
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Thoreau, Walden |
Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" |
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Early Baroque opera:
Monteverdi, "Lament of Arianna"
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Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
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Baroque opera:
Handel, excerpt from Julius CaesarHandel,
excerpt from Rodelinda
Baroque oratorio
Handel, Messiah
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Mark Twain: War Prayer
Twain: Americans and the English
Twain:
Miscellaneous Quotations |
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Vivaldi,
program for Spring concerto from Four Seasons Concertos |
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Emily
Dickinson, "I cannot live with you" Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
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