How to listen to and understand great music
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pt. 1. lecture 1. Music as a mirror ; lecture 2. Sources

the ancient world and the early church ;

lecture 3. Middle Ages ; lecture 4. Introduction to the Renaissance ; lecture 5. Renaissance mass ; lecture 6. Madrigal ; lecture 7. Introduction to the Baroque era ; lecture 8. Style features of Baroque-era music.

pt. 2. lecture 9. National styles

Italy and Germany ;

lecture 10. Fugue ; lecture 11. Baroque opera, pt. 1 ; lecture 12, Baroque opera, pt. 2 ; lecture 13. Oratorio ; lecture 14. Lutheran Church cantata ; lecture 15. Passacaglia ; lecture 16. Ritornello form and the Baroque concerto.

pt. 3. lecture 17. Enlightenment and an introduction to the classical era ; lecture 18. 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. Sonata form, pt. 1 ; lecture 24. Sonata form, pt. 2.

pt. 4. lecture 25. Classical-era form

Sonata form, pt. 3 ;

lecture 26. Symphony

music for every person ;

lecture 27. Solo concerto ; lecture 28. Classical-era opera

the rise of opera buffa ;

lecture 29. Classical-era opera, pt. 2

Mozart and the operatic ensemble ; 30.

French Revolution and an introduction to Beethoven ; lecture 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, pt. 1 ; lecture 32. Beethoven's symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, pt. 2.

pt. 5. lecture 33. Introduction to romanticism ; lecture 34. Formal challenges and solutions in early romantic music ; lecture 35. Program symphony

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, pt. 1 ;

lecture 36. Program symphony

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, pt. 2 ;

lecture 37. 19th-century Italian opera

bel canto opera ;

lecture 38. 19th-century Italian opera

Giuseppe Verdi ;

lecture 39. 19th-century opera

nationalism and experimentation ;

lecture 40. 19th-century German opera

Richard Wagner.

pt. 6. lecture 41. Concert overture, pt. 1 ; lecture 42. Concert overture, pt. 2 ; lecture 43. Romantic-era musical nationalism ; lecture 44. Russian nationalism ; lecture 45. 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.