Great music of the 20th century.
Explore the fascinating and surprising connections between famous music and historic events.
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- ISBN: 162997515X
- Physical Description 6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Publisher Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
- Copyright ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. 24 lectures (45 min. each). Course No. 7006. GMD: videodisc. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer! -- Setting the table and parsing out blame -- Debussy and Le Français in musical action -- Russia and Igor Stravinsky -- disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring -- The paradox of Arnold Schoenberg -- The emancipation of melody! -- The second Viennese school -- disc 3. The "New" classicism -- Schoenberg and the 12-tone method -- Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók -- America's musical gift -- disc 4. American Iconoclasts -- The world turned upside down -- Electronic music and European Ultraserialism -- Schoenberg in exile -- disc 5. Stravinsky in America -- For every action an equal reaction -- The California avant-garde -- Rock around the clock -- disc 6. East meets West: South meets North -- Postmodernism: new tonalty and eclecticism -- The new pluralism -- Among friends. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lectures presented by Professor Robert Greenberg. |
| System Details Note: | DVD. |
| Language Note: | In English ; closed-captioned. |