In Music as a Mirror of History, Great Courses favorite Professor Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with a fascinating and provocative premise: Despite the abstractness and the universality of music - and our habit of listening to it divorced from any historical context - music is a mirror of the historical setting in which it was created.
TTC - Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music
Course No. 759 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Isn't it Romantic! 2. A Pianist in Leipzig 3. Clara 4. Carnaval 5. Marriage and Songs 6. The Symphonic Year 7. Illness Takes Hold 8. Madness
Course No. 756 (8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Taught by Robert Greenberg San Francisco Performances Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1. Introduction and Childhood 2. Mahler the Conductor 3. Early Songs and Symphony No. 1 4. The Wunderhorn Symphonies 5. Alma and Vienna 6. Family Life and Symphony No. 5 7. Symphony No. 6, and Das Lied von der Erde 8. Das Lied, Final Symphonies, and the End
In The Soundtrack of My Life, music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of triumphs, disappointments, and encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, from Bob Dylan and Paul Simon to Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys.
World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. This book is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories.
