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The Great Works of Sacred Music

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Discover the greatest masterworks of the sacred music tradition, from early church music to the modern era, in this engrossing course taught by a professor of musicology.

Syllabus

  • 01: Hallelujah, Amen: The World of Sacred Music
  • 02: From Chant to Early Sacred Polyphony
  • 03: The Golden Age of Polyphony
  • 04: The Age of Reformation: Who Will Sing?
  • 05: Sacred Music in a Secular World
  • 06: Man and Meaning: Bach's Cantatas
  • 07: Art for Art's Sake: Bach's Mass in B Minor
  • 08: Handel's Great Oratorio: Messiah
  • 09: Messiah: From Entertainment to Ritual
  • 10: Mozart's Requiem: Praise and Memory
  • 11: Haydn's The Creation
  • 12: God, Man, Music, and Beethoven
  • 13: Mendelssohn's Elijah
  • 14: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
  • 15: Sacred Music in the Late 19th Century
  • 16: Come, All Ye Faithful: Music of Christmas
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Charles Edward McGuire

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