TY  - BOOK
TI  - Masterpieces of western music: classics from the Baroque to the modern 
SN  - 0760770344
AV  - ML160 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - [United States] : 
PB  - Barnes & Noble Audio, 
KW  - Music appreciation
N1  - In container (24 x 16 x 5 cm.).
Includes 1 additional sound disc: sample lectures from other Portable Professor courses;  	Course lectures: 1. The red priest and his all-girl orchestra (Vivaldi's "Spring" from Four Seasons) --
2. The case of the runaway soloist (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5) --
3. All rise and sing Hallelujah: (Handel's Messiah) --
4. More than just a Little Night Music (Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) --
5. Magnificent obsession: The world in four notes (Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor) --
6. Romanticism with a capital "R," or be careful what you wish for (Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique) --
7. How to make a piano sing (Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat) --
8. Going forward by looking back (Brahm's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel) --
9. A tale of love and death (Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) --
10. It takes two, baby (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition) --
11. A quiet revolution (Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) --
12. Modernism with a bang! (Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring) --
13. Kid stuff (Ravel's Mother Goose) --
14. The prairies of Brooklyn (Copland's Appalachian Spring)
N2  - This lecture series focuses on the very best of Western music, and as one progresses through the lectures, the following are two important questions that will be explored: What makes these works masterpieces? Why highlight these works?
ER  -