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"
2. Ernesto Lecuona, "Malagueña"
3. Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, "Two Insects"
4. Igor Stravinsky, "Final Hymn" from Firebird Suite
5. Louie Zong, "Winter Melon Way"
6. Vaughan Williams, "Beat! Beat! Drums" from Dona nobis pacem
7. Paul Hindemith, "En hiver" from Six Chansons
8. Duke Ellington, "Caravan"
9. Chet Baker, "Alone Together"
10. Miles Davis, "It Never Entered My Mind"
11. Laura Mvula, "That's Alright"
12. Billie Holiday, "All of Me"
13. Claude Debussy, "Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir" from Préludes Book I
14. Edison Denisov, Sonata I
15. John Adams, City Noir
16. Donny McCaslin, "Stadium Jazz"
17. David Bowie, "Sue"
18. Kneebody, "Drum Battle"
19. Dizzy Gillespie, "All the Things You Are"
20. John Coltrane, "Giant Steps"
21. Thomas Adès, Catch
22. György Ligeti, "Sostenuto – Misurato – Prestissimo" from Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
23. Koji Kondo, "Lost Woods" from Legend of Zelda
24. Cloudkicker, "We are going to invert..."
25. Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915
26. Claude Debussy, Syrinx
27. Joe Henderson, Inner Urge
28. Wayne Shorter, "E.S.P."
29. David Lang, are you experienced?
30. Paul Hindemith, "Allegro pesante" from Sonata for Bass Tuba
31. 2 Chainz, "I'm Different"
32. Béla Bartók, "Allegro non troppo" from Violin Concerto No. 2
33. William Albright, "Two-Part Invention" from Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
34. Alan Berg, "Andante - Allegretto" from Violin Concerto
35. Erich Korngold, "Moderato nobile" from Violin Concerto
36. Toru Takemitsu, Between Tides