The Great Works of Sacred Music

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Call Number: BOCD 783.2 McG Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
Course No. 7316.
Hallelujah, Amen: the world of sacred music -- From chant to early sacred polyphony -- Golden age of polyphony -- Age of Reformation: who will sing? -- Sacred music in a secular world -- Man and meaning: Bach's cantatas -- Art for art's sake: Bach's Mass in B Minor -- Handel's great oratorio: Messiah -- Messiah: from entertainment to ritual -- Mozart's Requiem: Praise and memory -- Haydn's The Creation -- God, man music, and Beethoven -- Mendelssohn's Elijah -- Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius -- Sacred music in the late 19th century -- Come, all ye faithful: music of Christmas.
Lecturer: Professor Charles Edward McGuire, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
Experience the majesty and beauty of the transcendent chorales, cantatas, masses, and oratorios of the Western sacred music tradition. Lectures are 45 minutes long and include examples of music discussed in the lecture.

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