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