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2) The symphony
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A twenty-four lecture course that traces the development of the symphony from its roots in the opera of the Baroque period to the present.
3) La Bohème
Author
Series
Publication Date
1987
Language
Italiano
Description
Mimi, a poor seamstress, and Rodolphe, a struggling playwright, fall in love. When Mimi attempts to help Rodolphe get his play produced, he suspects her of infidelity and she leaves him. Later, a severely ill Mimi returns to the now successful Rodolphe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Publication Date
℗2006.
Language
English
Description
Provides understanding of musical forms, techniques, and terms and of the reciprocal relationship of social context and musical creation, using digitally recorded music to illustrate points and examining the contributions of nearly every major western composer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Historical romances, religious texts, crime stories, protest novels, tales of upward mobility: All of these topics and others have captured the attention of American readers over the past several centuries. This course offers a broad but intensive survey of representative novels and nonfiction books that were bestsellers in their own time"--Container.
8) La Boheme
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Publication Date
[1996]
Language
Italiano
10) Aida
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Publication Date
2006.
Language
Italiano
Description
Mozart's classic comic opera is a tale of romantic rivalry between a lecherous Count and his clever resourceful valet Figaro. The Count, neglecting his wife, pursues Susanna, Figaro's bride-to-be, but after much plotting and counter-plotting by all concerned he is exposed. He asks his wife's forgiveness and Figaro and Susanna are married.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Publication Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents Virgil's epic poem about Aeneas and his journey west from ruined Troy to the founding of a new nation in Italy. The Aeneid is an examination of leadership, a study of the conflict between duty and desire, a meditation on the relationship of the individual to society and of art to life, and a Roman's reflection on the dangers, and the allure, of Hellenistic culture. It represents both Virgil's tribute to Homer, and his attempt to re-imagine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Publication Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"This course invites you ... to absorb some books that offer many of the same satisfactions as do the great books but without the pressure. The books of this course contain epic journeys and adventures in the great cities of the world ... All of this is managed by a dozen authors who can keep us engaged as we read by teasing us and making us laugh (and sometimes cry) while teaching us about the human condition, just as do the authors of the great...