Great Music of the 20Th Century

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Call Number: DVD 780.9 Gr Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Performing Arts / Great Music Of The 20th Century
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / Performing Arts / Great Music Of The 20th Century	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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24 lectures (45 min. each).
Course No. 7006.
disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer! -- Setting the table and parsing out blame -- Debussy and Le Français in musical action -- Russia and Igor Stravinsky -- disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring -- The paradox of Arnold Schoenberg -- The emancipation of melody! -- The second Viennese school -- disc 3. The "New" classicism -- Schoenberg and the 12-tone method -- Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók -- America's musical gift -- disc 4. American Iconoclasts -- The world turned upside down -- Electronic music and European Ultraserialism -- Schoenberg in exile -- disc 5. Stravinsky in America -- For every action an equal reaction -- The California avant-garde -- Rock around the clock -- disc 6. East meets West: South meets North -- Postmodernism: new tonalty and eclecticism -- The new pluralism -- Among friends.
Lectures presented by Professor Robert Greenberg.
Explore the fascinating and surprising connections between famous music and historic events.
DVD.

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