Record details

• ISBN: 1629975168
• ISBN: 9781629975160
• Physical Description: 24 audio discs (18 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company : [2018]
• Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Course Number 7006."

Contains twenty-four 45 minute lectures.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer! -- Setting the table and parsing out blame -- Debussy and Le Francais in musical action -- Russia and Igor Stravinsky -- Disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring -- The paradox of Arnold Schoenberg -- The emancipation of melody! -- The secon Viennese school -- Disc 3. The "New" classicism -- Schoenberg and the 12-tone method -- Synthesis and Nationalism: Bela Bartok -- America's musical gift -- Disc 4. American Iconoclasts -- The world turned upside down -- Electronic music and European Ultraserialism -- Schoenberg in exile -- Disc 5. Stravinsky in America -- For every action an equal reaction -- The California avant-garde -- Rock around the clock -- Disc 6. East meets West: South meets North -- Postmodernism: New Tonalty and Eclecticism -- The new Pluralism -- Among friends.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lectures presented by Professor Robert Greenberg.

Language Note:

Closed-captioned.

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Subject:

Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music appreciation.
Music.
Music appreciation.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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