By the end, we hope all of us have become more human (enriched our personalities) and had a rollicking good time! What makes his music great? Why does it move us? What should we listen for? And so we proceed down through Western musical history, visiting virtually the people who created it and the places where they did so. Ultimately, we reach the masters, commencing with Bach. Next, we proceed to the compositions themselves, starting with the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to show how Western music developed in ways unique to the West. We begin with the elements of music, breaking classical musical into its components of pitch, duration, and sound color, allowing us to better understand how music works. The aim of this course is to do just that: To explicate the mysteries and beauties of some of Western cultures greatest musical compositions-among them masterpieces of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Puccini. Why do we do it? Because it’s fun? Because it energizes or relaxes us? Because it keeps us current, allows us to understand what’s happening in past and popular culture? The pull of music-especially classical music-has never been explained. Every day around the world, billions of people listen to music of one sort or another, and millions listen to Western classical music.
0 kommentar(er)
