The Teaching Company: Bach and the High Baroque [Audio Lectures]
mp3 | 13 lectures | 30 minutes every lectures | 64 kbps | 235 Mb

"I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space. We would be bragging, of course."
—Biologist Lewis Thomas, on what message to send to an extraterrestrial civilization

Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers. But what is it about his music that makes it great? Composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg helps you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music and understand his compositional language—whether you're a devoted admirer or a casual listener.
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Taught by: Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Performances, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Course Lecture Titles
1. Introduction
2. Christmas, 1722
3. Introduction to the Baroque Aesthetic
4. Fugue
5. Historical Overview from Constantine through the Great Thinkers of the Baroque
6. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part I—A Musical Glossary
7. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part II—A Musical Glossary
8. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part III—A Musical Glossary
9. Bach's Inheritance, Part I—The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Lutheranism
10. Lutheranism, the Chorale and the Chorale Prelude
11. Bach's Inheritance, Part II—The Development of the Italian Style
12. The Italian Style, The Operatic Ideal and Lutheran Spirituality are Joined
13. Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part I—Vivaldi and the Venetian Opera

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