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Playlists

Homework 1

Excerpt 1: (The Kinks – ‘All Day and All of the Night’)

Excerpt 2: (Heart – ‘Barracuda’)

Homework 2

Excerpt 1: (The Rolling Stones – ‘Paint it Black’)

Excerpt 2: (Big Brother and the Holding Company – ‘Piece of My Heart’)

Excerpt 3: (Led Zeppelin – ‘Stairway to Heaven’)

Homework 3

Excerpt 1: (Gustavo Santaolalla – Opening from Brokeback Mountain)

Excerpt 2: (Tina Turner – ‘Goldeneye’)

Excerpt 3: (Lorne Balfe – Assassin’s Creed III Main Theme)

Homework 4

Excerpt 1: (Yoko Shimomura – Main Title from Street Fighter II)

Excerpt 2: (Jonathon Coulton – ‘Still Alive’ from Portal)

Excerpt 3: (Daft Punk – End Titles from Tron Legacy)

Homework 5

Excerpt 1: (Seal – ‘Kiss from a Rose’)

Excerpt 2: (Toni Braxton – ‘Un-Break My Heart’)

Homework 6

Excerpt 1: (Taylor Swift – ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’)

Excerpt 2: (Britney Spears – ‘Toxic’)

Excerpt 3: (Justin Timberlake – ‘Like I Love You’)

Homework 7

Excerpt 1: (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II – ‘My Favorite Things’ from The Sound of Music)

Excerpt 2: 7b (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice – ‘Beauty and the Beast’ from Beauty and the Beast)

Excerpt 3: (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer – ‘One Day More’ from Les Misérables)

Homework 8

Excerpt 1: (Jeanine Teesori and Brian Crawley – ‘Bring Me to Light’ from Violet)

Excerpt 2: (Jonathan Larson – ‘Seasons of Love’ from Rent)

Excerpt 3: (Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick – ‘Far from the Home I Love’ from Fiddler on the Roof)

Homework 9

Excerpt 1: (Jimi Hendrix – ‘Red House’)

Excerpt 2: (Beyoncé and Jay-Z – ‘Crazy in Love’)

Homework 10

Excerpt 1: (Céline Dion – ‘My Heart Will Go On’)

Excerpt 2: (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim – ‘America’ from West Side Story)