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First Nights - Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra
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Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music. Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna in 1824, and continues to be one of the most popular symphonies in the repertoire. The monumental symphony’s size and complexity stretches traditional instrumental forms to the breaking point, and its famous choral finale changed our view of orchestral music forever....
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18th-Century Opera: Handel & Mozart
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Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni In this breathtaking course, you'll get to know the music of two beautiful operas — both in their spellbindingartistry and colorful histories. First, you'll travel to London in 1724, where George Frideric Handel premiered his most famous opera, Giulio Cesare....
$139
First Nights - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots
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Learn the fascinating history of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written. The Rite of Spring continues to challenge listeners. According to Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring was intended to portray “the surge of spring, the magnificent upsurge of nature reborn. Harvard’s Thomas Forrest Kelly (Morton B....
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First Nights - Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and the Birth of Opera
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Learn about Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written. Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo premiered in Mantua in 1607, and continues to be regarded as one of the most important examples of early opera. With L 'Orfeo, Monteverdi helped to establish the techniques and traditions that continue to inform the genre of opera to this day....
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19th-Century Opera: Meyerbeer, Wagner, & Verdi
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Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots , Das Rheingold , and Otello. Travel through central Europe in the 1800s to experience the premieres of Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots , Wagner’s Das Rheingold , and Verdi’s Otello. Finally, travel to Milan in 1887 for the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s second-to-last opera, Otello....
$139
First Nights - Handel's Messiah and Baroque Oratorio
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Discover Handel's Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music. While Italian opera set the standard in the Baroque era, German composer George Frederic Handel quickly gained popularity for his oratorios, which put operatic techniques to work in the service of sacred music. Harvard's Thomas Forrest Kelly (Morton B....
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First Nights - Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Program Music in the 19th Century
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Learn about Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique , an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative "program music. " Six years after the premiere of Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony, composer Hector Berlioz sought to make use of the symphonic genre, but on his own terms. Harvard's Thomas Forrest Kelly (Morton B....
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The Book: Scrolls in the Age of the Book
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Examine Medieval scrolls in detail, and gain an understanding of their uses and historical significance. This course is an introduction to the making and use of scrolls in the European Middle Ages. Why and how did the scroll format remain popular and relevant in the age of the codex? This course proposes four main reasons, which...
$70
The Book: Books in the Medieval Liturgy
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Learn about the ornate liturgical books used in medieval cathedrals and monasteries, and their purpose in the Middle Ages. When we think of liturgy today, we imagine short, formal, congregational events happening periodically within the confines of churches. Medieval liturgy, however, took up many hours of every day, filled the city's largest meeting halls, and even spilled onto the streets....
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