Music Analyses: Table of Contents
A. Complete Analyses of musical works
For each item, read the Profile and the Essay together. While reading, if you want an explanation of any receptor, click here .
[1] Side-by-side
comparison of works by Schoenberg and
Brahms:
OMS Profile
Essay
[2] Cage:
4'33"
OMS Profile
Essay
[3] Jessie Hill:
Ooh Poo Pah
Doo
OMS Profile
Essay
Listen
(excerpt)
Listen
(longer excerpt)
[4] Side-by-side comparison of two works by
Mozart:
OMS Profile
Essay
[5]
Ustvolskaya: Piano
Sonata#6
OMS Profile
Essay Listen
[6] Esa-Pekka Salonen:
Helix
OMS Profile
Essay
YouTube
Clip
[7] Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op.
133
OMS
Profile
Essay
YouTube Clip, Part1
YouTube Clip, Part 2
B. Short Analyses
| Composer and Name of Piece | Performer | OMS Profile | Comments | OMS Rating |
| Nora the Cat: Piano Improvisation | Nora the Cat | Click here | Click here | 3 |
| Hot Cross Buns | (folk song) | Click here | Click here | 9 |
| Barney: I Love You | Barney the Dinosaur | Click here | Click here | 18 |
| Sherman Brothers: It's a Small World | Disney | Click here | Click here | 31 |
| David Seville: Chipmunk Song | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Click here | Click here | 43 |
| Al Jolson: Mammy | Al Jolson | Click here | Click here | 90 |
| Seeger, Hays: If I Had a Hammer | Peter Paul and Mary | Click here | Click here | 94 |
| Harry Warren: I Found a Million Dollar Baby | Bing Crosby | Click here | Click here | 97 |
| Raffi: Baby Beluga | Raffi | Click here | Click here | 100 |
| Bobby Day: Rockin' Robin | Bobby Day | Click here | Click here | 120 |
| Newton(?):Amazing Grace | (folk) | Click here | Click here | 131 |
| Michael McDonald: Takin' It to the Streets | Talor Hicks / American Idol | Click here | Click here | 141 |
| Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever | Lodi Community Band | Click here | Click here | 168 |
| Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz | Vienna Philharmonic | Click here | Click here | 199 |
| Irving Berlin: White Christmas | Bing Crosby | Click here | Click here | 201 |
| W C Handy: St Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong | Click here | Click here | 202 |
| Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust | Nat King Cole | Click here | Click here | 301 |
| Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 | Richter | Click here | Click here | 427 |
| Beethoven: Piano Sonata #31, Op. 110 | Schnabel | Click here | Click here | 680 |