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Dear Students,

You don’t realize it, but besides rap and hip hop, there is a music all around you that was written over a hundred years ago, and it still survives. This is called classical music. You will find it as background music in movies, in video games, cartoons, shopping malls, commercials, introductions to shows on television and radio, etc., etc.

We are not saying that ALL classical music is pleasant to the ear, but this is the case in all kinds of music.

What we have done is bring together for you and your teacher, on two CD’s, the classical music pieces you always hear in the places we talked about above. We call these pieces SPARKLERS because they light up your life. We also give you interesting information about the composers themselves.

We don’t want this program, (it’s called Remedy for Rap even though it doesn’t have anything against Rap itself...our own kids, in fact love it), to be a burden on your already heavy class work load so it is very simple: All you have to do is listen for 5 minutes to the composer of the week, and then mark down on a sheet if you recognize the piece, and like it from 1-10. Boom, that’s it. The CD itself leads you on an imaginary trip around Europe to the clinics of Rapaphobic doctors (the composers themselves) where you receive treatments (the music pieces) as a means of curing yourself from Rap....as if you really needed it. We thought it was a cute theme, and not one against Rap.

If you turn out to like the classical music pieces, go to www.classicalmusicproject.com and find out about a course that will make you a walking encyclopedia of the rap music of hundreds of years ago...classical music.

Yours truly,
Dr. Isaac Newton Brown

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Track	Composer	Sub track: Name of Piece	Have Heard	Like? rate 1-10
1	Intro	Remedy for Rap: Intro (this will be skipped)
2	Pachelbel	*Canon D*
	Vivaldi	*Concerto Number 1 in E Major:* Spring
		*Concerto Number 4 in F Minor:* Winter
3	Bach	*Toccata and Fugue*
		*Oboe Concerto in D Minor*
		*Overture Number 1 in C Major, Passepied*
		*Air on a G String*
		*Minuet in G Major*
		*Orchestral Suite Number 4 in D Major…*“Rejoicing”
4	Handel	Air, from his famous *Water Music Suite*
		Alla Hornpipe…from *Water Music*
		Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from oratorio *Solomon*
		Hallelujah Chorus from the *Messiah*
		Largo, from the opera, Xerxes.
5	Haydn	*Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat Major*
		Emperor’s Hymn…
		*Serenade* *Opus 3, Number* 5
		*94th Symphony, the “Surprise” Symphony*
6	Boccherini	“The Minuet” from *String Quintet in E Major*
7	Mozart	*Piano Concerto 21* commonly called Elvira Madigan
		*Eine Kliene Nachtmusik*, first movement,
		*Horn Concerto Number 3…2^nd Movement*
		Overture, Marriage of Figaro
		Rondo alla Turca, last movement of Piano Sonata in A Major
		*Symphony Number 40*
		Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
8	Beethoven	*Egmont* Overture
		*Fifth Symphony*
		*Bagatelle Fur Elise*
		*The Minuet in G*
		*The* *Moonlight Sonata*
	Beethoven (cont)	*Sonata Number 8,* *Pathetique*
		*Ninth Symphony,* last movement Ode to Joy
		*Romance Number 2* *in F*
9	Rossini	*Barber of Seville*
		*William Tell* Overture
10	Schubert	*Ave Marie*
		*Impromptu in B flat Major*
		*The Trout Quintet*
		*Unfinished Symphony*
11	Mendelssohn	Wedding March
		*Symphony Number 4, the “Italian” Symphony*
		*Spring Song, from Songs Without Words*
12	Chopin	*Minute Waltz*
		*Fantasie Impromtu, Opus 66, Number 4*
		*Polonaise Number 6 in A Flat Major*
		*Raindrop Prelude*
		*Sonata #2, Opus 35,* the “Funeral March”
13	Schumann	Traumerei from *Scenes from Childhood*
		Merry Peasant from Album for the Young, Opus 68
14	Liszt	*Love Dream, Song Number 3*
15	Wagner	Bridal Chorus from opera, *Lohengrin*
		The Dance of the Prentices from opera, *Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg*
		More “Meistersinger”
		Excerpt from the opera, *The Flying Dutchman*
		Excerpt from *Overture* of opera, Tannhauser
		Excerpt from the opera, *Tannhauser, Arrival of the Guests*
		Excerpt from opera, The Valkyrie… The Ride of the Valkyries
		Excerpt from the opera, *Triste and Isolde*
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1	Verdi	La Donna e mobile from the opera, Rigoletto
		Overture of the opera…*Nabucco*
		Triumphal March and Chorus from opera, *Aida*
		Anvil Chorus from the opera *Il Trovatore*
2	Gounod	*Ave Maria…based Bach’s Prelude in C, The Well Tempered Clavier*.
3	Offenbach	Barcarolle Night of Stars from *Tales of Hoffman*
4	Smetana	The Moldau, from a series of symphonic poems called *Ma Vlast*.
5	Johann Strauss, Jr.	*Blue Danube Waltz*
		*Tritsch Tratsch Polka*,
		*Vienna* *Blood Waltz*
6	Brahms	*Cradle Song,* also known as Brahms’s Lullaby
		*Hungarian Dance:* Number 5
		*1st Symphony, Fourth ovement*…excerpt that includes the famous horn
		*1st Symphony, Fourth Movement*, an excerpt after the horn
		*Waltz Opus 39, Number 15*
7	Borodin	From Polovtsian Dances from the opera, *Prince Igor*
8	Ponchielli	Dance of the Hours from opera, *La Gioconda*.
9	Saint-Saens	The Swan from the *Carnival of Animals*
10	Bizet	March of the Toreadores from opera *Carmen*
		The Habenera from opera Carmen
		Farandole from Suite 2 of L’Arlesienne
11	Mussorgsky	Promenade from *Pictures at an Exhibition*
		The Great Gate at Kiev from *Pictures at an Exhibition*
12	Tchaikovsky	*Piano Concerto Number 1*
		The Dance of the Toy Flutes from the ballet, *Nutcracker Suite*
		The Waltz of the Flowers from the ballet, *Nutcracker Suite*
		The Russian Dance, from the ballet, *Nutcracker Suite*
		*Romeo and Juliet* from a fantasy overture written in 1869
		From *Swan Lake*, a four-act ballet
		*Pathetique: the SixthSymphony*
		*1812 Overture*
13	Dvorak	Second Movement, Ninth Symphony, also called, *From the New World*…contains the famous horn.
		from Fourth Movement, Ninth Symphony
14	Massenet	from the opera, *Thais*
15	Greig (Grieg)	*Piano Concerto in A Minor*
		Anitra’s Dance from incidental music for the play, *Peer Gynt*
		Morning Dance from incidental music for the play, *Peer Gynt*
		In the Hall of the Mountain King: Dance from incidental music for the play, *Peer Gynt*
		Solvieg’s Song: Dance from incidental music for the play, *Peer Gynt*
16	Rimsky-Korsakov	Flight of the Bumble Bee from the opera, *The Legend of Tsar Saltan*
17	Elgar	*Pomp and Circumstance March*
18	Puccini	Un bel di Vedremo, from the opera *Madame Butterfly*
19	Mahler	Third Movement, Symphony Number 1
20	Debussy	Claire de Lune, meaning “moonlight” in English.
		From Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
21	Mascagni	from opera, *Cavalleria* *Rusticana*
22	Richard Strauss	from the symphonic poem, *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*
23	Sibelius	*Finlandia*
24	Rachmaninoff	Second Movement Piano Concerto Number 2
25	Ravel	*Pavane for a Dead Princess*

Now look back at the the "Like" column and see if there are any composers you seem to favor.