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Music as a mirror of history Discs 1, 2, 3

Explore the fascinating and surprising connections between famous music and historic events. Course guidebook available at the Reference Desk.

Main Author: Greenberg, Robert, 1954- (Author, lecturer.)
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2016]
Series: Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
Subjects:
Music appreciation.
Music > History and criticism.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Lectures.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1.
  • Music and history, madrigals and maps
  • Handel: Water music
  • Mozart: The abduction from the harem
  • Haydn: Mass in the time of war
  • Disc 2.
  • Beethoven: The farewell sonata
  • Beethoven: Wellington's victory
  • Berlioz/de L'Isle: La Marseillaise
  • Chopin: Etude in C minor, op.10, no. 12
  • Disc 3.
  • Glinka: A life for the Tsar
  • Strauss Sr.: Radetzky march
  • Brahms: Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25
  • Gottschalk: The Union
  • Disc 4.
  • Verdi: Nabucco
  • Wagner: The Ring
  • Dvořák: From the New World symphony
  • Balakirev: Symphony no. 1
  • Disc 5.
  • Janáček: Piano sonata I.X.1905
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: The golden cockerel
  • Holst: Ode to death
  • Berg: Wozzeck
  • Shostakovitch: Symphony no. 13
  • Copland: Symphony no. 3
  • Górecki: Symphony no. 3
  • Crumb: Black angels.

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