Listening to Music

Lorenzo Candelaria, Ph.D., has a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College (1995) and a doctorate from Yale University (2001). He is an award-winning teacher and author at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is the recipient of prestigious fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was presented with the Robert M. Stevenson Award by the American Musicological Society for his book THE ROSARY CANTORAL (2008). Craig M. Wright, Ph.D., received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in 1966 and his Doctorate in Musicology from Harvard University in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of Kentucky and for over forty years taught at Yale University, where he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright’s courses included his perennially popular introductory course, Listening to Music (also part of the offerings of Open Yale Courses); his large lecture course, Exploring the Nature of Genius; and most recently his Coursera course, Introduction to Classical Music. He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles on composers ranging from Leoninus to Bach. Wright has also been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago. In 2010 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining fellow inductee and banjo player Steve Martin.

• Part I: INTRODUCTION TO LISTENING.1. The Power of Music.2. Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony.3. Color, Texture, Form, and Style.Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, 476-1600.4. Medieval Music, 476-1450.5. Renaissance Music, 1450-1600.Part III: THE BAROQUE PERIOD, 1600-1750.6. Early Baroque Music: Opera.7. Toward Late Baroque Instrumental Music.8. The Late Baroque: Bach.9. The Late Baroque: Handel.Part IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1750-1820.10. Introduction to Classical Style: Haydn and Mozart.11. Classical Forms: Ternary and Sonata, Allegro.12. Classical Forms: Theme and Variations, Rondo.13. Classical Genres: Instrumental Music.14. Classical Genres: Vocal Music.15. Beethoven: Bridge to Romanticism.Part V: ROMANTICISM, 1820-1900.16. Introduction to Romanticism.17. Romantic Music: The Art Song.18. Romantic Music: Program Music, Ballet, and Musical Nationalism.19. Romantic Music: Piano.20. Romantic Opera: Italy.21. Romantic Opera: Germany.22. Nineteenth-Century Realistic Opera.23. Late Romantic Orchestral Music.Part VI: MODERN AND POSTMODERN ART MUSIC, 1880-PRESENT.24. From Impressionism to Modernism.25. Early-Twentieth-Century Modernism.26. American Modernism.27. Postmodernism.Part VII: AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC.28. American Popular Music to WWII.29. Postwar Jazz and Broadway.30. Music for Media: Film, TV, and Games.31. Rock: Music of Rebellion.Part VIII: GLOBAL MUSIC.32. East and Southeast Asia.33. The Near East and Africa.34. The Caribbean and Latin America.