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Listening to Music

Yale, , Prof. Craig Wright

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

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Introduction - Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres - Rhythm: Fundamentals - Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical - Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts - Melody: Mozart and Wagner - Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them - Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock - Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven - Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations - Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations - Guest Conductor: Saybrook Orchestra - Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein - Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C - Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel - Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach - Mozart and His Operas - Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven - Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo - The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler and Shostakovich - Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet - Modernism and Mahler - Review of Musical Style

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Lecture 16: Baroque Music The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Listening to Music (MUSI 112)In this lecture, Professor Wright discusses the Baroque period through a detailed look at the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He first takes the students through the basics of Bachs life, showing slides of the towns and buildings in which Bach and his family lived. Professor Wright then discusses Bachs music, and techniques of Baroque music in general, within the context of the composers life. The lecture concludes with a discussion of the Advent cantata Bach wrote based on the chorale "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme."0000 - Chapter 1. A Brief Biography of J. S. Bach1648 - Chapter 2. Bachs Music and Characteristics of Baroque Style2808 - Chapter 3. Bachs "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Discussion and Analysis4615 - Chapter 4. Bachs Legacy in Musical HistoryComplete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpoyc.yale.eduThis course was recorded in Fall 2008.