How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition by Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses

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How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

  • By: Robert Greenberg, The Great Courses
  • Narrated by: Robert Greenberg
  • Series: The Great Courses: Fine Arts & Music
  • Length: 36 hrs and 34 mins
  • Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary

Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. And it has an undeniable power to move us in ways that enrich our lives - provided it is understood.

If you have ever longed to appreciate great concert music, to learn its glorious language and share in its sublime pleasures, the way is now open to you, through this series of 48 wonderful lectures designed to make music accessible to everyone who yearns to know it, regardless of prior training or knowledge. It's a lecture series that will enable you to first grasp music's forms, techniques, and terms - the grammatical elements that make you fluent in its language - and then use that newfound fluency to finally hear and understand what the greatest composers in history are actually saying to us.

And as you learn the gifts given us by nearly every major composer, you'll come to know there is one we share with each of them - a common humanity that lets us finally understand that these were simply people speaking to us, sharing their passion and wanting desperately to be heard. Using digitally recorded musical passages to illustrate his points, Professor Greenberg will take you inside magnificent compositions by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and more. Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life - as so many of us have - you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2006 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2006 The Great Courses

Customer Reviews

1-5 of 2 reviews

  • Phildo77

    Outstanding in every way

    This course is a truly unique insight into the structure and meaning of a variety of works over hundreds of years. Prof Greenburg, I feel I should call him Bob, is the knowledgeable, enthusiastic, unpretentiousness guide who explains the composer and works in the context of their time and personal life in language that is easy to understand. There are detailed notes that can be referred to as well. Cannot recommend this highly enough. I’m am about to start my Greenburg course, 30 orchestral works. Thank you Bob!

    5 people found this helpful

    March 22, 2016
  • Odo

    Truly superb

    Robert Greenberg never fails to educate, entertain, or impress. A masterwork for anyone interested in music.

    1 person found this helpful

    March 22, 2016

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