How to Listen to and Understand Great Music

It is possible to appreciate the beauty, genius, and power of concert music permanently. Why is this happening? As award-winning composer and Professor Robert Greenberg explains, music, the most abstract and sublime of all the arts, is capable of transmitting an unbelievable amount of expressive, historical, and even philosophical information to us, provided that our antennas are up and pointed in the right direction. A little education goes a long way to vitalizing and rendering relevant a body of music that many feel is beyond their grasp. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Hide the full description.

Why is an understanding of concert music important? There are a few reasons I would suggest.

The skills one brings to listening to music have gone uncultivated in our educational system and culture for too long.

Music is a universal language that can be used to understand the social, cultural, and aesthetic traditions of different cultures and historical eras. We become aware of our shared humanity and the wisdom and vision of others.

Music allows us to experience different realities.

Good music is fun to listen to, relatively inexpensive, we can do it by ourselves or with others, and there are any number of ways to expand our knowledge and appreciation of the art.

The Composers, the Tools, and the Times.

Professor Greenberg gives you an outstanding grasp of musical forms, techniques, and terms that make you fluent in the language of music. These are interesting concepts. Professor Greenberg is alert to the need for them.

Music requires an adjectival palette by which we can isolated events that we might not be able to notice. It is interesting to know what degree language allows us to see things that are not related to it. If you have the right word to identify it, you can see it. Wine-tasting, where one has to come up with an adjectival palette that is almost a cartoon unto itself, is my favorite kind of pseudoscience. Silly as these phrases may be, they allow us to draw distinctions without which we may not be able to. We will create a useful vocabulary.

Professor Greenberg teaches the influence of social context on musical creation. James Collins wrote in Inc. magazine that the Greenberg series combines a history of Western civilization with a history of great music from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Greenberg’s 48 lectures are full of passion and knowledge. The course shows the interplay between societal change and innovation and offers a unique perspective on the pace of change in the 20th century.

Get it immediately. There is a way to listen to and understand great music. Musical creativity has provided a vibrant means of expression for grand spiritual, intellectual, political, social, and economic forces throughout the history of our civilization.

You will see how such forces have swirled through the lives of music’s creators and the people who listen to them. You will understand how these forces have stimulated the creation of musical masterpieces that are both transcendent works of art and compositions deep in their respective eras, telling us something central about the human condition in each one.

The course looks at the contributions of nearly every major composer. One of Professor Greenberg’s aims is to make their music accessible, and we must accept that every one of them was a human. He observes that an English translation of the name Giuseppe Verdi would be simply Joe Green. The composers who are brought to life in the lectures will never be forgotten. Consider Professor Greenberg’s introduction to Berlioz.

The Symphonie fantastique was written in 1830 by Hector Berlioz, who was only 27 years old and still learning his craft.

The Symphonie fantastique is an experimental artwork. A piece of music is absolutely avant-garde. It attempts to unite the four great loves of Berlioz, as he felt them then and as they continued to be throughout his life. Shakespeare’s plays and Shakespeare’s sense of drama are the first two great loves, followed by Beethoven’s symphonies and opera. It is anautobiographical work. We have to understand that autobiography is typical of the self-involvement and expression of the 19th- and 20th-century artist.

Professor Greenberg uses digitally recorded musical passages to illustrate his points, and he will show you magnificent compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, and more. You will never hear the illustrative pieces the same way again after Professor Greenberg opens them up. To find out how much you will learn, look at the titles of the lectures.