The Teaching Company: How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

Course Lecture Titles 1. Music as a Mirror 2. Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church 3. The Middle Ages 4. Introduction to the Renaissance 5. The Renaissance Mass 6. The Madrigal 7. An Introduction to the Baroque Era 8. Style Features of Baroque-era Music 9. 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 Schönberg