Music as a mirror of history
By: Professor Robert Greenberg
Contributors: Recorded Books, LLC; Teaching Company
Series: The great courses; Great courses (Compact disc)
Publisher: Teaching Company; [Distributed by] Recorded Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va.]; Prince Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781501947858; 9781629972985
Subjects: Music appreciation; History and criticism; Music
Description: Explore the connections between famous music and historic events.
Notes: Compact discs.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains PDF course workbook, which includes lecture guides, glossary, biographical notes and bibliography.

Taught by: Professor Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Performances.
Table of contents: title: Music and history: Madrigals and maps; title: Handel: Water music; title: Mozart: The abduction from the harem; title: Haydn: Mass in the time o of war; title: Beethoven: The farewell sonata; title: Beethoven: Wellington's victory; title: Berlioz/de L'Isle: La Marseillaise; title: Chopin: Etude in C minor, op.10, no. 12; title: Glinka: A life for the tsar; title: Strauss Sr.: Radtszky march; title: Brahms: Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25; title: Gottschalk: The Union; title: Verdi: Nabucco; title: Wagner: The Ring; title: Dvorak: From the new world symphony; title: Balakirev: Symphony no. 1; title: Janacek: Piano sonata I.X.1905; title: Rimsky-Korsakov: The golden cockerel; title: Holst: Ode to death; title: Berg: Wozzeck; title: Shostakovitch: Symphony no. 13; title: Copland: Symphony no. 3; title: Gorecki: Symphony no. 3; title: Crumb: Black angels.