Lectures include: "The History of Ancient Egypt""Ancient Greek Civilization""The Joy of Science""Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists""Great Masters: Mozart-His Life and Music""The Symphonies of Beethoven"

Philosophy & Intellectual History The Great Courses (The Great Courses)

Science & Math

Professor Robert Greenberg

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Professor Richard Wolfson

Professor Jeremy McInerney

Professor Robert M. Hazin

Evolution

The Teaching Company

Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony. Whether devoted admirer or casual listener, you'll gain a new appreciation of the composer and a heightened skill at listening to his work. You begin by learning the musical traditions and composers that inspired Bach, and how he absorbed those influences to become the transcendent composer of the High Baroque, more representative of the period and its aesthetic of emotional extravagance and technical control than any other. And you'll learn how both his German Lutheran heritage and family background - at least 42 relatives professionally involved with music - helped shape him as an artist. Above all, though, you experience an abundance of music, with Professor Greenberg highlighting his discussions by playing major excerpts from several of Bach's most important works - including the Brandenburg Concerto no. 2, the Goldberg Variations, and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - and also showing you how to compare Bach with other composers both before and after his time.

Bach and the High Baroque

Arts & Photography

Music

Even from the perspective of time, it is nearly impossible to grasp the full contribution made to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his brief and glorious life. He composed his first symphony at the age of 8 and reached full artistic maturity by the time he was only 20. And when he died at the age of 35, he left a legacy of more than 600 works of brilliance - symphonies, chamber music, operas, and more - most composed during an incredibly productive 20-year period. But even though it can well take a lifetime to fully grasp the achievement of the man described by Rossini as "the only composer who had as much knowledge as genius and as much genius as knowledge", every step of that journey toward understanding will be a joy - one you can begin with this fascinating eight-lecture series, which can serve as both a stand-alone introduction to this extraordinary composer or as the gateway to a lifetime of appreciation and pleasure. Beginning with an examination of the many myths that surround Mozart to this day, Professor Greenberg offers not only an understanding of his music, but also a realistic view of Mozart the boy and man, from his emergence as youthful prodigy to his posthumous deification.You'll learn about his difficult and ultimately doomed relationship with his father, his troubled marriage, his relationships with luminaries like Haydn, Emperor Joseph II, and his operatic librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, and the triumphs and disappointments that marked his career - including the astonishing and inexplicable creative recovery that enabled him to create his great Masonic opera, The Magic Flute , only months before his death.

Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and Music

History

Lecture transcript and course guidebook for the Teaching Company course "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music". 6 paperback volumes.

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (The High Baroque, 2 of 6)

Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony. Whether devoted admirer or casual listener, you'll gain a new appreciation of the composer and a heightened skill at listening to his work. You begin by learning the musical traditions and composers that inspired Bach, and how he absorbed those influences to become the transcendent composer of the High Baroque, more representative of the period and its aesthetic of emotional extravagance and technical control than any other. And you'll learn how both his German Lutheran heritage and family background - at least 42 relatives professionally involved with music - helped shape him as an artist. Above all, though, you experience an abundance of music, with Professor Greenberg highlighting his discussions by playing major excerpts from several of Bach's most important works - including the Brandenburg Concerto no. 2, the Goldberg Variations, and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - and also showing you how to compare Bach with other composers both before and after his time.

The Great Courses

The Great Courses....How to Listen to and Understand Opera Part 4 of 4

How to Listen to and Understand Opera: 4 Volumes (The Great Courses: Teaching that Engages the Mind)

Teaching Company Limited Partnership

The Symphony

Course Lecture Titles Let's Take It From the Top! The Concerto and the Orchestra The Pre-Classical Symphony Mannheim Classical Masters Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 1 Franz Joseph Haydn, Part 2 Mozart Beethoven Schubert Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique Mendelssohn and Schumann Franck, Saint-Saens, and the Symphony in France Nationalism and the Symphony Brahms, Bruckner, and the Viennese Symphony Gustav Mahler Nielsen and Sibelius The Symphony in Russia Charles Ives Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber Roy Harris and William Schuman The Twentieth-Century British Symphony Olivier Messiaen and Turangalila! Dmitri Shostakovich and His Tenth Symphony

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Volume 1-2 -3)

Music Education series from the Great Course

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition (Great Courses, 6 Volume Set)

Understanding the Fundamentals of Music

We all know that beneath the surface of music, beyond the joy or excitement or even heartache that this beautiful language of sound can stir within us, lies the often mysterious realm of music theory-a complex syntax of structural and instrumental resources that composers may draw on. No matter what kind of music we listen to-symphony or string quartet, saxophone solo or vocal ballad, hip hop or Gregorian chant-we feel the impact of that music and have done so all our lives, even though we may not know how such impact is achieved, or understand the fundamental processes of musical composition. But what if we did understand how certain musical effects were achieved? What if we could learn to follow the often-intimidating language of key signatures, pitch, mode, melody, meter, and other parts of musical structure used by composers? What if we could recognize these various components at work as we listened to our favorite music? What if we could ""speak"" the language of Western music? It's a language that Professor Robert Greenberg calls rich, varied, and magnificent, and he has little doubt about the rewards of even a beginning level of fluency.

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Books by Professor Robert Greenberg

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Philosophy & Intellectual History The Great Courses (The Great Courses)

Bach and the High Baroque

Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and Music

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (The High Baroque, 2 of 6)

Bach and the High Baroque

How to Listen to and Understand Opera: 4 Volumes (The Great Courses: Teaching that Engages the Mind)

The Symphony

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Volume 1-2 -3)

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition (Great Courses, 6 Volume Set)

Understanding the Fundamentals of Music