The Great Works of Sacred Music
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Discover the greatest masterworks of the sacred music tradition, from early church music to the modern era, in this engrossing course taught by a professor of musicology.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Hallelujah, Amen: The World of Sacred Music
- 02: From Chant to Early Sacred Polyphony
- 03: The Golden Age of Polyphony
- 04: The Age of Reformation: Who Will Sing?
- 05: Sacred Music in a Secular World
- 06: Man and Meaning: Bach's Cantatas
- 07: Art for Art's Sake: Bach's Mass in B Minor
- 08: Handel's Great Oratorio: Messiah
- 09: Messiah: From Entertainment to Ritual
- 10: Mozart's Requiem: Praise and Memory
- 11: Haydn's The Creation
- 12: God, Man, Music, and Beethoven
- 13: Mendelssohn's Elijah
- 14: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
- 15: Sacred Music in the Late 19th Century
- 16: Come, All Ye Faithful: Music of Christmas
Taught by
Charles Edward McGuire
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