Listening to Music with Professor Craig Wright

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This course fosters the development of aural skills that lead to an understanding of Western music. The musical novice is introduced to the ways in which music is put together and is taught how to listen to a wide variety of musical styles, from Bach and Mozart, to Gregorian chant, to the blues.

About Professor Craig Wright

Craig Wright received the degree Bachelor of Music in piano and music history at the Eastman School of Music (1966) and a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard (1972), and since 1973 has taught at Yale University where he is currently the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music. At Yale, Wright's courses include his perennially popular introductory course "Listening to Music" and his selective seminar "Exploring the Nature of Genius." During the summers he has led several Yale Alumni tours to France, Germany, and Italy. Among his six books are Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris (1989), Music in Western Civilization (2005), Listening to Music (6th edition, 2011), and Listening to Western Music (2007). He is presently at work on a volume entitled Mozart's Brain: Exploring the Nature of Genius. In 2004 Wright was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Chicago.

Sessions

Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Introduction to Instruments and Musical Genres
Lecture 3 Rhythm: Fundamentals
Lecture 4 Rhythm: Jazz, Pop and Classical
Lecture 5 Melody: Notes, Scales, Nuts and Bolts
Lecture 6 Melody: Mozart and Wagner
Lecture 7 Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them
Lecture 8 Bass Patterns: Blues and Rock
Lecture 9 Sonata-Allegro Form: Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 10 Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations
Lecture 11 Form: Rondo, Sonata-Allegro and Theme and Variations (cont.)
Lecture 12 Guest Conductor: Saybrook Orchestra
Lecture 13 Fugue: Bach, Bizet and Bernstein
Lecture 14 Ostinato Form in the Music of Purcell, Pachelbel, Elton John and Vitamin C
Lecture 15 Gregorian Chant and Music in the Sistine Chapel
Lecture 16 Baroque Music: The Vocal Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Lecture 17 Mozart and His Operas
Lecture 18 Piano Music of Mozart and Beethoven
Lecture 19 Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo
Lecture 20 The Colossal Symphony: Beethoven, Berlioz, Mahler and Shostakovich
Lecture 21 Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet
Lecture 22 Modernism and Mahler
Lecture 23 Review of Musical Style