Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 15 minutes ago
Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. And it has an undeniable power to move us in ways that enrich our lives—provided it is understood. If you have ever longed to appreciate great concert music, to learn its glorious language and share in its sublime pleasures, the way is now open to you, through this series of 48 wonderful lectures designed to make music accessible to everyone who yearns to know it, regardless of prior training or knowledge.
Transcript
00:00Music, the most abstract and sublime of all the arts, is capable of transmitting an unbelievable
00:07amount of expressive, historical, and even philosophical information to us, provided
00:13that our antennas are up and pointed in the right direction.
00:16That is Professor Robert Greenberg from his seminal great course, How to Listen to and
00:21Understand Great Music.
00:23This course prepares you to understand music's unique language so that you can fully experience
00:28its beauty, genius, and power.
00:31Listening and understanding music teaches us to look beneath the surface and to comprehend
00:35that which is not immediately visible.
00:38Professor Greenberg gives you an outstanding grasp of musical forms, techniques, and terms,
00:43the grammatical elements that make you fluent in the language of music.
00:47And he dives deep into the powerful influence of social context on musical creation, combining
00:53a history of Western civilization with the history of great music from ancient Greece to
00:58the 20th century.
00:59Professor Greenberg will take you inside magnificent compositions by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms,
01:07Tchaikovsky, and more.
01:08You may have heard many of these works all your life, but you will never hear them the same
01:13way again after Professor Greenberg has opened them up for you.
01:16Enrich your life in a transcendent way with How to Listen to and Understand Great Music with
01:21Professor Robert Greenberg.
01:23Order it now.
Comments

Recommended