Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Teaching Company (2007), Audio Cassette, 12 cassettes and 83-page, 77-page & 83-page booklets
Description
Professor Greenberg combines perceptive analysis of extensive musical excerpts with historical anecdotes, metaphors, and humor to show what goes on inside a musical composition: how it came to be written, how it works, and how, as is often the case with Beethoven, it may break all former rules to achieve a completely new and powerful effect. This course is somewhat technical and although musical knowledge is helpful, it is not a necessity.
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
none
Local notes
[01] Beethoven and the piano [02] Homage to Mozart [03-04] Grand sonata [05] Meaning and metaphor [06] Striking and subversive, op. 10 continued [07] Pathétique and the sublime [08] The opus 14 sonatas [09] Motives, Bach and a farewell to the 18th century [10] A genre redefined [11] Sonata quasi una fantasia: The moonlight [12] Lesser siblings and a pastoral interlude [13] Tempest [14] A quartet of sonatas [15] Waldstein and the heroic style [16] Appassionata and the heroic style [17-18] They deserve better [19] Farewell Sonata [20] Experiments in a dark time [21-22] Hammerklavier [23] In a world of his own [24] Reconciliation