These lectures give you the tools of vocabulary and the structural fundamentals most of us, no matter how much we love music, have never acquired-even if you've taken "music appreciation" or learned to play an instrument at a basic level. Even more important, you gain a knowledge of the structural conventions original audiences took for granted, allowing you to share the musical experiences those audiences had when they were surprised or challenged by a composer's departure from those conventions. With the tools provided by this course, you can understand a composer's surrender to the status quo ... or his defiance of it. And you'll be able to experience, as those first audiences did, the music's full intellectual and expressive impact.

Lectures:

1. Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, I
2. Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, II
3. Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, III
4. Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, IV
5. Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, I
6. Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, II
7. Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, III
8. Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, IV
9. Dvorak-Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, I
10. Dvorak-Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, II
11. Dvorak-Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, III
12. Dvorak-Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, IV
13. Strauss-Death and Transfiguration, I
14. Strauss-Death and Transfiguration, II
15. Strauss-Death and Transfiguration, III
16. Strauss-Death and Transfiguration, IV
17. Beethoven-Violin Concerto in D Major, I
18. Beethoven-Violin Concerto in D Major, II
19. Beethoven-Violin Concerto in D Major, III
20. Beethoven-Violin Concerto in D Major, IV
21. Brahms-Violin Concerto in D Major, I
22. Brahms-Violin Concerto in D Major, II
23. Brahms-Violin Concerto in D Major, III
24. Brahms-Violin Concerto in D Major, IV
25. Mendelssohn-Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer I
26. Mendelssohn-Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer II
27. Mendelssohn-Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer III
28. Mendelssohn-Incidental Music and Overture to A Midsummer IV
29. Liszt-Totentanz, I
30. Liszt-Totentanz, II
31. Liszt-Totentanz, III
32. Liszt-Totentanz, IV