This is an excerpt from the third movement of Blue/s forms by Coleridge Taylor Perkinson. If you listen closely, you can hear the outline of blues harmony in the bass, with G indicating I7, C indicating IV7, and D indicating V7.

This is an excerpt from Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 2 featuring Tara Hagle on violin, Philip Rawlinson on viola, and Lily Stern on cello. It features intense emotions, Argentine folk music influence, and serialist techniques.

This is an excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chaconne. I love how Bach takes the idea at the beginning and develops and modifies this idea to create a masterpiece.