The Teaching Company: HOW TO LISTEN TO AND UNDERSTAND GREAT MUSIC, 3rd Edition, Complete Set (The Great Courses: Fine Arts and Music, Course # 700)

Presents a history and criticism of music and how to listen and appreciate it. Abstract: Presents a history and criticism of music and how to listen and appreciate it Content: 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 music -- 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 concerto -- 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 2 -- 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 2 -- 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 Wagner -- 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.