How to listen to great music
Subtitle: a guide to its history, culture, and heart
By: Robert Greenberg
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780452297081
Subjects: Music appreciation
Notes: "The great courses"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding and listening to music; title: A mad dash through the roots of Western music; title: The music of the medieval church; title: A necessary and invigorating excursion into the worlds of music theory and terminology; title: Emotional exuberance and intellectual control : the paradox of Baroque art; title: Play it, don't say it : the rise of instrumental music; title: National styles : Italy and Germany (or, Why German music will never hit your eye like a big pizza pie and Italian music will never go from best to wurst); title: Fugue it!; title: Opera : the Baroque expressive revolution in action; title: Opera goes to church; title: A new liturgy comes of age : Lutheran Baroque sacred music; title: Instrumental form in Baroque era music; title: Baroque era musical genres; title: Enlightened is as enlightened does : an introduction to the Classical era; title: Putting it all together : Classical era musical form, part one; title: Classical era musical form, part two; title: Classical era orchestral genres, part one; title: Classical era orchestral genres, part two; title: Send in the buffone : opera in the Classical era; title: A revolutionary artist for a revolutionary time : Ludwig van Beethoven; title: Beethoven's compositional innovations : when the going gets tough, the tough innovate; title: Isn't it Romantic? : the music of the nineteenth century; title: Structural problems : formal challenges in early Romantic music; title: Going beyond Beethoven : Hector Berlioz's Symphony fantastique and the program symphony; title: Nineteenth-century Italian opera : Rossini and bel canto; title: Giuseppe Verdi : it's all about the people; title: dramatic truth in Italian opera; title: Nineteenth-century German opera : von Weber and Wagner, nationalism and experimentation; title: Of thee I sing : musical nationalism in the nineteenth century; title: Romantic nationalism, Russian style; title: A modern music for a modern world; title: Revolutions, evolutions, and "-isms" galore : the making of a new music in the early twentieth century; title: From Russia with rhythm : Igor Stravinsky; title: No waltz in the park : Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna and Expressionism; title: Postlude.