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Part I. The ancient world through early Baroque. Lecture 1. Introduction -- Lecture 2. Sources: the ancient world and the early church -- Lecture 3. The Middle Ages: darkness, change, and diversity -- Lecture 4. Introduction to the Renaissance -- Lecture 5. The Renaissance mass: Josquin des Prez, Palestrina, and the Counter-Reformation -- Lecture 6. Secular music in the late Renaissance and the search for expression: the madrigal -- Lecture 7. Introduction to Baroque -- Lecture 8. Style features of Baroque music and a brief tutorial on pitch, motive, melody and texture -- Part II. The High Baroque. Lecture 9. The rise of German nationalism in music -- Lecture 10. Fugue -- Lecture 11. Baroque opera, part 1 -- Lecture 12. Baroque opera, part 2 -- Lecture 13. Baroque sacred music, part 1: the oratorio -- Lecture 14. Baroque sacred music, part 2: the Lutheran Church cantata -- Lecture 15. Baroque instrumental forms, part 1: passacaglia -- Lecture 16. Baroque instrumental forms, part 2: ritornello form and the Baroque concerto --

Part III. The classical era I. Lecture 17. The Enlightenment and an introduction to the classical era -- Lecture 18. The Viennese classical style, homophony, and the cadence -- Lecture 19. Classical-era form: theme and variations -- Lecture 20. Classical-era form: minuet and trio I: Baroque antecedents -- Lecture 21. Classical-era form: minuet and trio II -- Lecture 22. Classical-era form: rondo -- Lecture 23. Classical-era form: sonata-allegro form I, part 1 -- Lecture 24. Classical-era form: sonata-allegro form I, part 2 -- Part IV. The classical era II and the age of revolution: Beethoven. Lecture 25. Classical-era form: sonata-allegro form II -- Lecture 26. Classical-era orchestral genres: the symphony: music for every person -- Lecture 27. Classical-era orchestral genres: the concerto -- Lecture 28. Classical-era opera: the development of opera buffa -- Lecture 29. Classical-era opera: Mozart and the operatic ensemble -- Lecture 30. The French Revolution and an introduction to Beethoven -- Lecture 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, part 1 -- Lecture 32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, part 2 --

Part V. Nineteenth-century Romanticism. Lecture 33. Introduction to Romanticism

Lecture 34. Formal challenges and solutions to early Romantic music: miniatures: Lieder and Chopin

Lecture 35. Formal challenges and solutions to early Romantic music: the program symphony: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

Lecture 36. Formal challenges and solutions (cont.)

Lecture 37. Nineteenth-century Italian opera: Bel canto opera

Lecture 38. Nineteenth-century Italian opera: Giuseppe Verdi

Lecture 39. Nineteenth-century German opera: nationalism and experimentation

Lecture 40. Nineteenth-century German opera: Richard Wagner

Part VI. From Romanticism to Modernism: 1848 to 1913. Lecture 41. The concert overture, part 1

Lecture 42. The concert overture, part 2

Lecture 43. Romantic nationalism: post 1848 musical nationalism

Lecture 44. Russian nationalism

Lecture 45. The early twentieth century and the Modernist

Lecture 46. Early twentieth century Modernism: the search for a new musical language: Debussy

Lecture 47. Early twentieth century Modernism: the search for a new musical lanuage: Stravinsky

Lecture 48. Early twentieth century Modernism: the search for a new musical language: Sch�onberg.