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Real Music: Trichords
Melodic

These trichords are all melodic. 
When the texture is busier, the more obvious melodic trichord is identified.
In a few excerpts, the trichord occurs more than once, using different notes.

The hardest examples are clustered towards the end of the list (last ten or so). 
Easy examples begin the list.
The order is slightly mixed, with some harder ones mixed in with some easier ones.

1.  Antônio Carlos Jobim, "Girl from Ipanema"

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2.  Ernesto Lecuona, "Malagueña"

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3. Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, "Two Insects"

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4. Igor Stravinsky, "Final Hymn" from Firebird Suite 

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5. Louie Zong, "Winter Melon Way"

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6. Vaughan Williams, "Beat! Beat! Drums" from Dona nobis pacem

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7. Paul Hindemith, "En hiver" from Six Chansons

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8. Duke Ellington, "Caravan"

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9. Chet Baker, "Alone Together"

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10. Miles Davis, "It Never Entered My Mind"

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11. Laura Mvula, "That's Alright"

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12. Billie Holiday, "All of Me"

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13. Claude Debussy, "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" from Préludes Book I

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14. Edison Denisov, Sonata I

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15. John Adams, City Noir

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16. Donny McCaslin, "Stadium Jazz"

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17. David Bowie, "Sue"

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18. Kneebody, "Drum Battle"

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19. Dizzy Gillespie, "All the Things You Are"

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20. John Coltrane, "Giant Steps"

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21. Thomas Adès, Catch

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22. György Ligeti, "Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo" from Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

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23. Koji Kondo, "Lost Woods" from Legend of Zelda

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24. Cloudkicker, "We are going to invert..."

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25. Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915

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26. Claude Debussy, Syrinx

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27. Joe Henderson, Inner Urge

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28. Wayne Shorter, "E.S.P."

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29. David Lang, are you experienced?

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30. Paul Hindemith, "Allegro pesante" from Sonata for Bass Tuba

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31. 2 Chainz, "I'm Different"

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32. Béla Bartók, "Allegro non troppo" from Violin Concerto No. 2

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33. William Albright, "Two-Part Invention" from Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano

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34. Alan Berg, "Andante - Allegretto" from Violin Concerto

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35. Erich Korngold, "Moderato nobile" from Violin Concerto

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36. Toru Takemitsu, Between Tides

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