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The Modern Scholar: Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music

By: Professor Richard Freedman
Narrated by: Richard Freedman
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Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far. Music has closure, a sensation not just of ending, but of expecting no more. Music also has accent. It is a dynamic process of stresses and nuance that often varies in dimension from one performance to the next.

This course is not designed as a chronological survey of musical history and its many stylistic periods or moments, nor an exploration of the lives and output of individual composers. Instead, these lectures focus on the development of listening skills. Through this course you will develop new levels of aural awareness that will allow you to better appreciate the richness, complexity and excitement at the heart of all great concert music.

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This was a nice introduction which would work well for those without a string musical background. Follows a nice concept/theme progression as opposed to chronological/historical which most books follow. This is a nice change. Would recommend.

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