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Taught by Professor Charles Edward McGuire | 47 min | Categories: Music & Fine Arts
In the first of two sublime sacred works by Beethoven, his oratorio Christus am Ölberge, grasp how he uses dramatic expressive means to emphasize the suffering of Christ-suffering with which he personally identified. In the great Missa Solemnis, follow how Beethoven mines the musical past in creating a monumental spiritual vision....
16 Lectures
1
Hallelujah, Amen: The World of Sacred Music
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of 43 min
2
From Chant to Early Sacred Polyphony
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of 41 min
3
The Golden Age of Polyphony
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of 42 min
4
The Age of Reformation: Who Will Sing?
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of 41 min
5
Sacred Music in a Secular World
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of 46 min
6
Man and Meaning: Bach's Cantatas
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of 45 min
7
Art for Art's Sake: Bach's Mass in B Minor
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of 44 min
8
Handel's Great Oratorio: Messiah
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of 45 min
9
Messiah: From Entertainment to Ritual
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of 44 min
10
Mozart's Requiem: Praise and Memory
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of 44 min
11
Haydn's The Creation
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of 45 min
12
God, Man, Music, and Beethoven
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of 47 min
13
Mendelssohn's Elijah
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of 44 min
14
Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
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of 45 min
15
Sacred Music in the Late 19th Century
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of 47 min
16
Come, All Ye Faithful: Music of Christmas
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of 46 min
