How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

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"Course no. 700."
Lectures 1-48 of 48 lectures on 12 discs in 6 containers.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Music as a mirror -- Lecture 2. Sources : the ancient world and the early church -- Lecture 3. The Middle Ages -- Lecture 4. Introduction to the Renaissance -- Lecture 5. The Renaissance Mass -- Lecture 6. The madrigal -- Lecture 7. An introduction to the Baroque Era -- Lecture 8. Style features of Baroque-era music.
Pt. 2. Lecture 9. National styles : Italy and Germany -- Lecture 10. Fugue -- Lecture 11. Baroque opera, part 1 -- Lecture 12. Baroque opera, part 2 -- Lecture 13. The oratorio -- Lecture 14. The Lutheran Church cantata -- Lecture 15. Passacaglia -- Lecture 16. Ritornello form and the Baroque concerto.
Pt. 3. Lecture 17. The Enlightenment and an introduction to the Classical Era -- Lecture 18. The Viennese classical style : homophony and cadence -- Lecture 19. Classical-era form : theme and variations -- Lecture 20. Classical-era form : minuet and trio : Baroque antecedents -- Lecture 21. Classical-era form : minuet and trio form -- Lecture 22. Classical-era form : rondo form -- Lecture 23. Classical-era form : sonata form, part 1 -- Lecture 24. Classical-era form : sonata form, part 2.
Pt. 4. Lecture 25. Classical-era form : sonata form, part 3 -- Lecture 26. The symphony : music for every person -- Lecture 27. The solo concerto -- Lecture 28. Classical-era opera : the rise of opera buffa -- Lecture 29. Classical-era opera, part 2 : Mozart and the operatic ensemble -- Lecture 30. The French Revolution and an introduction to Beethoven -- Lecture 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, part 1 -- Lecture 32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, part 2.
Pt. 5. Lecture 33. Introduction to Romanticism -- Lecture 34. Formal challenges and solutions in early romantic music -- Lecture 35. The program symphony : Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, part 1 -- Lecture 36. The program symphony : Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, part 2 -- Lecture 37. 19th-century Italian opera : Bel Canto opera -- Lecture 38. 19th-century Italian opera : Guiseppe Verdi -- Lecture 39. 19th-century German opera : Nationalism and experimentation -- Lecture 40. 19th-century German opera : Richard Wagner.
Pt. 6. Lecture 41. The concert overture, part 1 -- Lecture 42. The concert overture, part 2 -- Lecture 43. Romantic-era musical nationalism -- Lecture 44. Russian nationalism -- Lecture 45. An introduction to early 20th-century modernism -- Lecture 46. Early 20th-century modernism : Claude Debussy -- Lecture 47. Early 20th-century modernism : Igor Stravinsky -- Lecture 48. Early 20th-century modernism : Arnold Schönberg.
Taught by: Professor Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Performances.
Presents a history and criticism of music and how to listen and appreciate it.
DVD format.

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Greenberg is worth all 48 lectures submitted by amy on June 30, 2015, 11:13am He's geeky, he's entertaining, he's brilliant. His arm gestures and jokes will both amuse and annoy you, but once you're used to him you'll find you're learning more than you ever wanted to or even thought possible.