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7 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm). This lecture series focuses on the very best of Western music, and as one progresses through the lectures, the following are two important questions that will be explored: What makes these works masterpieces? Why highlight these works? Course lectures: 1. The red priest and his all-girl orchestra (Vivaldi's "Spring" from Four Seasons) -- 2. The case of the runaway soloist (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5) -- 3. All rise and sing Hallelujah: (Handel's Messiah) -- 4. More than just a Little Night Music (Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) -- 5. Magnificent obsession: The world in four notes (Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor) -- 6. Romanticism with a capital "R," or be careful what you wish for (Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique) -- 7. How to make a piano sing (Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat) -- 8. Going forward by looking back (Brahm's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel) -- 9. A tale of love and death (Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) -- 10. It takes two, baby (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition) -- 11. A quiet revolution (Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) -- 12. Modernism with a bang! (Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring) -- 13. Kid stuff (Ravel's Mother Goose) -- 14. The prairies of Brooklyn (Copland's Appalachian Spring). Jeffrey D Lependorf; Recorded Books, Inc. In container (24 x 16 x 5 cm.). Includes 1 additional sound disc: sample lectures from other Portable Professor courses. Music appreciation ML160 Arts & Literature 0760770344 170228 20201005113243.0