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

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

• By This Professor
• 01: Music as a Mirror
• 02: Sources-The Ancient World and the Early Church
• 03: The Middle Ages
• 04: Introduction to the Renaissance
• 05: The Renaissance Mass
• 06: The Madrigal
• 07: An Introduction to the Baroque Era
• 08: Style Features of Baroque-era Music
• 09: National Styles-Italy and Germany
• 10: Fugue
• 11: Baroque Opera, Part 1
• 12: Baroque Opera, Part 2
• 13: The Oratorio
• 14: The Lutheran Church Cantata
• 15: Passacaglia
• 16: Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto
• 17: The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era
• 18: The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence
• 19: Classical-era Form-Theme and Variations
• 20: Classical-era Form-Minuet and Trio: Baroque Antecedents
• 21: Classical-era Form-Minuet and Trio Form
• 22: Classical-era Form-Rondo Form
• 23: Classical-era Form-Sonata Form, Part 1
• 24: Classical-era Form-Sonata Form, Part 2
• 25: Classical-era Form-Sonata Form, Part 3
• 26: The Symphony-Music for Every Person
• 27: The Solo Concerto
• 28: Classical-era Opera-The Rise of Opera Buffa
• 29: Classical-era Opera, Part 2-Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble
• 30: The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven
• 31: Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 1
• 32: Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 2
• 33: Introduction to Romanticism
• 34: Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music
• 35: The Program Symphony-Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 1
• 36: The Program Symphony-Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 2
• 37: 19th-Century Italian Opera-Bel Canto Opera
• 38: 19th-Century Italian Opera-Giuseppe Verdi
• 39: 19th-Century German Opera-Nationalism and Experimentation
• 40: 19th-Century German Opera-Richard Wagner
• 41: The Concert Overture, Part 1
• 42: The Concert Overture, Part 2
• 43: Romantic-era Musical Nationalism
• 44: Russian Nationalism
• 45: An Introduction to Early 20th-Century Modernism
• 46: Early 20th-Century Modernism-Claude Debussy
• 47: Early 20th-Century Modernism-Igor Stravinsky
• 48: Early 20th-Century Modernism-Arnold Schonberg