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Professor Wright introduces the course by suggesting that "listening to music" is not simply a passive activity one can use to relax, but rather, an active and rewarding process. He argues that by learning about the basic elements of Western classical music, such as rhythm, melody, and form, one learns strategies that can be used to understand many different kinds of music in a more thorough and precise way -- and further, one begins to understand the magnitude of human greatness. Professor Wright draws the music examples in this lecture from recordings of techno music, American musical theater, and works by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy and Strauss, in order to introduce the issues that the course will explore in more depth throughout the semester.

Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres
Lecture 3 Rhythm: Fundamentals
Lecture 4 Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical
Lecture 5 Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts
Lecture 6 Melody: Mozart and Wagner
Lecture 7 Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them
Lecture 8 Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock
Lecture 9 Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 10 Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations
Lecture 11 Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (cont.)
Lecture 12 Guest Conductor: Saybrook Orchestra
Lecture 13 Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein
Lecture 14 Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C
Lecture 15 Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel
Lecture 16 Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Lecture 17 Mozart and His Operas
Lecture 18 Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 19 Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo
Lecture 20 The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler and Shostakovich
Lecture 21 Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet
Lecture 22 Modernism and Mahler
Lecture 23 Review of Musical Style”

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