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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

Series: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition
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Episodes
48
Rating
TVPG
Year
2006
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

Forever change the way you listen to music with this outstanding course that explores the history, composition, and sublime accomplishments of Western concert music.

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Episodes

1. Music as a Mirror

47m

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This opening lecture introduces themes, concepts, and terminology that will be used throughout the series.

2. Sources-The Ancient World and the Early Church

45m

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This lecture introduces the ancient world as a 4,000-year period of extraordinary cultural richness.

3. The Middle Ages

44m

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This lecture focuses on the changing role of music in the medieval world.

4. Introduction to the Renaissance

46m

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Examine the impact of ancient Greek and Roman culture on Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.

5. The Renaissance Mass

45m

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This lecture introduces the mass as the most important compositional genre of the Renaissance.

6. The Madrigal

45m

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This lecture focuses on the madrigal, the most important genre of Italian secular music of the late Renaissance.

7. An Introduction to the Baroque Era

45m

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Compare the measured elegance of Renaissance music with the extravagant emotionalism of Baroque music.

8. Style Features of Baroque-era Music

48m

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Build listening skills and a descriptive vocabulary, and discuss style and features of Baroque music.

9. National Styles-Italy and Germany

46m

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This lecture describes the rise of German music during the Baroque.

10. Fugue

46m

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This lecture introduces the parts of a fugue: the exposition, subject restatements, and episodes.

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