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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.

4 units29 lessons97 min

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Unit 1

First steps

  1. What “classical” means3 min
  2. Titles, numbers and movements3 min
  3. Music with a plan3 min

Unit 2

Five periods

  1. The Baroque period3 min
  2. The Classical period3 min
  3. The Romantic period4 min
  4. The late Romantic period3 min
  5. Modern music4 min

Unit 3

Instruments

  1. The orchestra3 min
  2. The string family3 min
  3. The woodwind family4 min
  4. The brass family4 min
  5. Percussion3 min
  6. Keyboard instruments4 min
  7. Voices and the choir4 min

Unit 4

Kinds of work

  1. The symphony3 min
  2. The concerto3 min
  3. Romances, rhapsodies and fantasies3 min
  4. Overtures, suites and tone poems3 min
  5. Music for wind band3 min
  6. The string quartet3 min
  7. Chamber music3 min
  8. The piano sonata4 min
  9. Short piano pieces4 min
  10. Harpsichord and organ3 min
  11. One instrument alone4 min
  12. Art song3 min
  13. Voice and orchestra3 min
  14. Choral music4 min

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Course 2

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.

8 units · 22 lessons · 71 min

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