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How to listen to and understand great music, Robert Greenberg, Disc 1-12

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How to listen to and understand great music

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Robert Greenberg

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The great courses

Presents a history and criticism of music and how to listen and appreciate it

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 musicPt. 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 concertoPt. 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 2Pt. 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 2Pt. 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 WagnerPt. 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

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