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Lectures 1-48 of 48 lectures on 12 discs in 6 containers

Course guidebook includes lecture outline, timeline, and glossary

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

Lecturer: Professor Robert Greenberg, San Francisco performances

Presents a history and criticism of music and how to listen and appreciate it

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