Enhanced Listening Focus: Heroines and Villains
<p>Explore some of the elements of music theory composers use to convey their ideas. Learn to discern qualities of organisation and structure in music new to you and perhaps experience an epiphany in
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Composers On Vacation: From Handel to Fauré
<p>Inspirational holiday music, written by: Handel in the English countryside, Mozart in the Netherlands and Italy, Beethoven at Heiligenstadt, Schubert in Hungary, Mendelssohn in Italy and Scotland,
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Music for Autumn, Spring, Lent and Easter: From The Renaissance To Today
<p>Music composed for specific seasons of the year, for times of reflection and celebration, has always been an important part of life. A wide ranging survey of music with works by Byrd, Lasso,
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Court-life, Conflict and Composers
<p>Composers do not write in a vacuum. They are influenced by the world around them; the social, political and economic. This series looks at the lives of 7 composers and explores how the society in
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Famous Faces of the Sixties
<p>The sixties saw an arts explosion as well as political upheaval that set the scene for the remainder of the twentieth century and beyond. We will look at the famous people of this decade from music
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Musicals of the 20th Century
<p>The Musical has been a popular form of entertainment for well over a hundred years up until today when block-buster musicals continue to break attendance records. Broadway is healthier than ever.
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Inside Opera Masterpieces
<p>All six operas are well loved masterpieces: Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore, Puccini’s Turandot and Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. Each lecture
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The Unknown Liszt
<p>A flamboyant virtuoso, a lady’s man, a champion of innovation, a pop star, a generous patron, and a Catholic acolyte: Franz Liszt was all of these and more during his long and varied career. His
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Purple Haze: Music of the Psychedelic Sixties
<p>See and hear some of the most memorable exponents of the Psychedelic sound: the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and more.<br/><p><br/><strong>COURSE OUTLINE</strong></p><ul><li>The Origins
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