The Teaching Company: Bach and the High Baroque [Audio Lectures]

"I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space. We would be bragging, of course."

Underappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights in the estimation of generations of music lovers. But what is it about his music that makes it great? Composer and musicologist Robert Greenberg helps you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music and understand his compositional language—whether you're a devoted admirer or a casual listener.
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Taught by: Robert Greenberg, San Francisco Performances, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Course Lecture Titles
1. Introduction
2. Christmas, 1722
3. Introduction to the Baroque Aesthetic
4. Fugue
5. Historical Overview from Constantine through the Great Thinkers of the Baroque
6. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part I—A Musical Glossary
7. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part II—A Musical Glossary
8. Style Features of High Baroque Music, Part III—A Musical Glossary
9. Bach's Inheritance, Part I—The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Lutheranism
10. Lutheranism, the Chorale and the Chorale Prelude
11. Bach's Inheritance, Part II—The Development of the Italian Style
12. The Italian Style, The Operatic Ideal and Lutheran Spirituality are Joined
13. Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part I—Vivaldi and the Venetian Opera
14. Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part II—Vivaldi's Model and Bach, Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major
15. Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part II—Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major (cont.)
16. Vivaldi, Bach and the Concerto, Part III—The Concerto Grosso and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
17. Bach and the French Style, Part I—Dance and the Orchestral Suite
18. Dance and the Orchestral Suite (cont.)
19. Bach and the French Style, Part II—The Keyboard Suite
20. The Keyboard Suite (cont.)
21. Bach and Opera, Part I—Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, uns ruft die stimme
22. Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, uns ruft die stimme (cont.)
23. Bach and Opera, Part II—Opera Buffa and the Secular Cantata, The Coffee Cantata
24. Opera Buffa and the Secular Cantata, The Coffee Cantata (cont.)
25. Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part I
26. Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part II
27. Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part III
28. Bach Transcendent—The Saint Matthew Passion, Part IV
29. Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part I
30. Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part II
31. Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part III
32. Bach Transcendent—The Goldberg Variations, Part IV

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