How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

Course No. 700 (48 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Robert Greenberg
San Francisco Performances
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
1. Music as a Mirror
2. Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church
3. The Middle Ages
4. Introduction to the Renaissance
5. The Renaissance Mass
6. The Madrigal... and more

How to Listen to and Understand Opera

Course No. 740 (32 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Robert Greenberg
San Francisco Performances
1. Introduction and Words and Music, I
2. Introduction and Words and Music, II
3. A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, I
4. A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, II
5. Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, I
6. Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, II
7. Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, III...and more

Elizabeth Ferrars - Zero at the Bone

The police weren't interested in the two sisters: Susan Lyne and Fiona Laslett. Nor were they interested in their neighbors, at least not yet. Later they would return in numbers to investigate the inescapable fact of violent death. But at the present, they were only inquiring about a domestic python that had strayed from nearby Bright's Farm. But instead of finding a python, the police found something more alarming...

For My Country's Freedom by Alexander Kent

It is March 1811, and Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London from Cornwall. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America or face war with those who were once friends.

The Darkening Sea by Alexander Kent

Kent's popular naval hero returns to England after the capture of Martinique and finds a brief respite in the arms of his mistress, Lady Catherine Somervell. But a new conflict looms, as France forges an alliance with America, threatening British trade routes.