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 19: Romantic Opera Verdis La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo

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Listening to Music (MUSI 112)This lecture focuses on opera and the operatic voice, from the Romantic period to the present. Professor Wright integrates a discussion of one of the most often-performed and famous operas in the Western canon, Verdis La Traviata, with a discussion of vocal performance practice. For the latter, he uses recordings of singers from the early to late twentieth century as examples of different types of voices and the ways in which aesthetic values about the voice have changed throughout the past hundred years.0000 - Chapter 1. Introduction to Opera0508 - Chapter 2. Verdis La Traviata The First Aria1936 - Chapter 3. The Scena in Opera2659 - Chapter 4. Critical Assessment of Vocal Performance3306 - Chapter 5. Major Opera Singers of the 20th and 21st CenturiesComplete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website httpoyc.yale.eduThis course was recorded in Fall 2008.