Course 1
What is classical music?
Where classical music comes from, its five periods, the instruments and voices that play it, the kinds of work it is written in, and how to hear the plan of a piece.
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Forms
How music is built: binary form and the Baroque suite, ternary form, the minuet and the scherzo, the rondo, theme and variations, sonata form, the fugue, the concerto, the freer forms and song forms, and how the movements of a whole work fit together, each heard in real recordings.
Unit 1
How form works
Unit 2
Forms that return
Unit 3
Variation
Unit 4
Sonata form
Unit 5
Counterpoint
Unit 6
The concerto
Unit 7
Freer forms
Unit 8
The whole work
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