Great Music of the 20th Century
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p><span>Travel into the lives of the great 20th-century composers and immerse yourself in the era’s sublime musical masterworks.</span></p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: 20th-Century Music: Be Afraid No Longer!
- 02: Setting the Table and Parsing Out Blame
- 03: Debussy and le français in Musical Action
- 04: Russia and Igor Stravinsky
- 05: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
- 06: The Paradox of Arnold Schoenberg
- 07: The Emancipation of Melody!
- 08: The Second Viennese School
- 09: The “New” Classicism
- 10: Schoenberg and the 12-Tone Method
- 11: Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók
- 12: America’s Musical Gift
- 13: American Iconoclasts
- 14: The World Turned Upside Down
- 15: Electronic Music and European Ultraserialism
- 16: Schoenberg in Exile
- 17: Stravinsky in America
- 18: For Every Action an Equal Reaction
- 19: The California Avant-Garde
- 20: Rock around the Clock
- 21: East Meets West; South Meets North
- 22: Postmodernism: New Tonality and Eclecticism
- 23: The New Pluralism
- 24: Among Friends
Taught by
Robert Greenberg
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