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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Postmodernism in music represented both a return to the musical values of Romanticism and an amalgam of diverse musical influences. Investigate the music of George Rochberg and David del Tredici, both of whom embraced musical styles from the past. Then explore "pastiche" - direct quotation from earlier works - in the phenomenal music of Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, and George Crumb.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Revisit the expressive quality of music and how you can use the techniques you are learning to better convey expression. Professor Pike offers a few tips for where amateurs tend to get distracted with anticipation. Reflect on how musical dynamics are related to the musical line, form, and harmonic progression.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of the Hammerklavier, focusing on the paradoxical fourth movement fugue, composed seemingly without limits or limitations. The Hammerklavier has been called "monstrous and immeasurable," a sonata like no other. With it, Beethoven opened the door to a new expressive world.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Take the measure of guitarist Charlie Christian and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, each of whom transformed jazz and their instruments. Grasp how to work for greater speed and accuracy when playing melodies. Learn "movable" chord shapes for major and minor seventh chords, practice the Dorian modal scale, and use them in a minor blues tune.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bring your vocal skills to the areas of expression and performance. Grasp the importance of aligning your intention with the message your listeners are receiving. Explore how factors such as posture, facial expressions, physical gestures, vocal resonance, and articulation all communicate. Sing "Auld Lang Syne," and practice communicating different attitudes and expressive intentions.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Following World War I, Spain emerged at the forefront of a revolution in the European arts. Grasp the extraordinary innovations of the painters Picasso, Miró and Dalí, the architect Antoni Gaudí, and the contributions of musical masters Segovia and Casals. Also, delve into the political factors that led to the disintegration of Spain's constitutional monarchy.
Publisher
Monster Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It’s dusk and the stars are emerging in the sky. Luna, Jupiter, and Clyde are enjoying a breezy evening in the backyard when they come across a little lightning bug flashing its light on and off, on and off. The trio is intrigued and wonder why it is that lightning bugs flash their lights. They’ll find their answer as little lightning bugs in another exciting musical make believe, full of twinkling lights and lightning bugs.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In listening to music, we sometimes hear the meter differently than the way it's written on the page. Learn how the concept of hypermeter helps explain this, by showing that when measures of music are grouped into phrases, we often hear a pulse for each measure in the phrase, rather than the pulses within the measure. Explore examples of hypermeter, and how we perceive music as listeners.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Harmony, where two or more notes sound together, lies at the heart of tonal music. In this lesson, study the structure of chords, combinations of three or more notes heard at the same time, focusing on triads, a group of fundamental three-note chords. Learn about major and minor triads, and the lesser-used diminished and augmented triads, and observe harmony in action in a Bach chorale.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They have made a difference and revolutionized the world. They come from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe. These remarkable individuals have pioneered, developed and forever improved their industry and the world in which we live. Engaging and relevant, these individuals will change the way you view the world, and remind you that it only takes one person to make a difference. Milstones, Michael Eavis, Quincy Jones, Steve Jobs,...
11) Music Theory: The Foundation of Great Music: Episode 14,Musical Harmony in Context: Progressions
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Building on your study of harmony, observe how harmonic motion works, where one chord or tonality leads to another, forming a progression that we hear as a coherent harmonic sequence or event. Study the example of the tonic harmony, the "home" tonality of a piece, as it leads to the predominant harmony, the dominant harmony, and resolves back to the tonic, completing the progression.
12) U2: Rockumentary
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A cliche start: 4 teenage boys form a rock band in the drummer’s kitchen. 45 years, 14 albums, 24 concert tours, 22 Grammies. U2 raises millions to fight hunger, disease and poverty. Music transcends melody. It means mission.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Examine two Beethoven sonatas that deserve more attention than they are generally accorded: no. 22 in F, op. 54, and no. 24 in F sharp, op. 78. The former is an inspired, virtuosic, and genuinely experimental piece of music; the latter is one of the strangest and most adventurous works in the repertoire.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Focus almost entirely on the first movement of Piano Sonata no. 11 in B flat, op. 22, to understand Beethoven's developing compositional priorities and the influence of Bach on his music. Written in 1800, this work is in many ways Beethoven's farewell to the 18th-century Viennese Classical style.
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A “quasi-musical” approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a neighborhood, a city and a country. The real place, Boa Viagem – Recife, Pernambuco 51111-260, Brazil, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the Hebrew Bible, every word has a punctuation mark that serves three functions: telling you where the accent falls, indicating how to chant the text musically, and telling you how to group words in a sensible way. Use this knowledge to move forward in your reading of Numbers 22.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They have made a difference and revolutionized the world. They come from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe. These remarkable individuals have pioneered, developed and forever improved their industry and the world in which we live. Engaging and relevant, these individuals will change the way you view the world, and remind you that it only takes one person to make a difference. John Lennon, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bono, Pink
18) The Islanders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Real Life Teens is an unbiased and realistic look from the perspective of teens, at the wide variety of issues teens face today featuring young teenagers telling their real stories, in their own words. The series discusses significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice and information. This program discusses the effects of the media on teens. It is designed to help teens feel comfortable...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, this award winning documentary is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. Never one to compromise on her vision, Maya kept her camera rolling throughout. MATANGI/MAYA / M.I.A. provides unparalleled, intimate access to the artist in her battles with the music industry and mainstream...
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