I took the liberty of appropriately filtering Alex Ross' list of twentieth century music and for each work, linking to the longest available free and legal online sources (for registered US residents, usually Napster).
Walking-in music: Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (Napster album)
2. Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, "Glorification of the Chosen One" (Napster track)
3. George Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue (Napster track)
17 and 18. Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (Napster search)
19 and 20. Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat (Napster search)
21. Stravinsky, Pulcinella (Napster album)
22. Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Napster track)
34. Edgard Varèse, Arcana (Napster track)
39. Kurt Weill, "Alabama Song" (Napster track)
40. Weill, "Moritat von Mackie Messer" (f/ B. Brecht) (Napster track)
42. Aaron Copland, Billy the Kid (Napster track)
43. Charles Ives, Three Places in New England, "Putnam's Camp, Redding, CT" (Napster track)
46. Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex, "Gloria' (Amazon clips)
48. Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (Napster track)
51. Milton Babbitt, Three Compositions for Piano (Amazon clip)
56. John Cage, Williams Mix (Amazon clip)
57. Conlon Nancarrow, Study No. 3a (Amazon CD)
60. Stravinsky, Requiem Canticles (Amazon clips)
61. Copland, Connotations (Amazon clip)
64. Henry Cowell, Aeolian Harp and Sinster Resonance (Napster clip)
65. Harry Partch, Barstow (Amazon clip)
66. Cage, String Quartet in Four Parts (BBC Real Audio clip)
67. Morton Feldman, Extensions 3 (Amazon clip)
68. Terry Riley, In C (Napster clip)
69. Miles Davis, "So What" (Napster track)
70. Junior Walker & The All Stars, "Shotgun" (Napster track)
71. James Brown, "Lost Someone" (Napster track)
72. Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Napster track)
73. Steve Reich, It's Gonna Rain (Napster track)
74. Reich, Piano Phase (Napster track)
75. Philip Glass, Music in Similar Motion (Napster track)
76. Velvet Underground, "Heroin" (Napster track)
77. Velvet Underground, "What Goes On" (live 1969) (Napster track)
78. Glass, Koyaanisqatsi (Napster album)
84. John Adams, Harmonielehre (Napster track)
86. Michael Gordon, Decasia (Napster album)
87. Martin Bresnick, My Twentieth Century (Amazon clip)
97. Elliott Carter, Clarinet Concerto (Amazon clips)
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