DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The great works of sacred music / Charles Edward McGuire.

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2015]

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 138 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Experience the majesty and beauty of the transcendent chorales, cantatas, masses, and oratorios of the Western sacred music tradition. Lectures are 45 minutes long and include examples of music discussed in the lecture.

Great courses. Fine arts & music (Music appreciation)

Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.

Sacred music.

Sacred music -- Analysis, appreciation.

Sacred vocal music -- Analysis, appreciation.

Chants -- Analysis, appreciation.

Masses -- Analysis, appreciation.

Oratorios -- Analysis, appreciation.

Carols -- Analysis, appreciation.

Music appreciation.

Christmas music.

Church music.

Music in churches.

Music -- History and criticism.

Gregorian chants.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

McGuire, Charles Edward, teacher.

Teaching Company, production company.

Course no. 7316.

Program contains sixteen lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 45 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129), discography (p. 130-132), and music credits (p. 133-138) in course guidebook.

Lecturer: Professor Charles Edward McGuire, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.

DVD.

In English.

Title from disc surface.

Hallelujah, Amen: the world of sacred music -- From chant to early sacred polyphony -- Golden age of polyphony -- Age of Reformation: who will sing? -- Sacred music in a secular world -- Man and meaning: Bach's cantatas -- Art for art's sake: Bach's Mass in B Minor -- Handel's great oratorio: Messiah -- Messiah: from entertainment to ritual -- Mozart's Requiem: Praise and memory -- Haydn's The Creation -- God, man music, and Beethoven -- Mendelssohn's Elijah -- Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius -- Sacred music in the late 19th century -- Come, all ye faithful: music of Christmas.

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