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Music is experienced temporally as well as aurally, passing before our ears in an instant yet creating a cumulative emotional dynamic that amounts to far more than the sum of its parts. In this inviting series of lectures that is neither history nor theory, Professor Richard Freedman trains the listener to better discern the color and texture in music, to distinguish among its rhythmic patterns, and to recognize certain established classical forms.

COURSE LECTURES

Preliminary Thoughts and EncouragementsOn Musical TimbreListening to TextureListening to MelodyListening to Rhythm and MeterListening to HarmonyKinds of MusicConcerning Musical RepresentationListening to Musical HistoryListening to Musical Forms: SectionalListening to Musical Forms: ContinuousHearing Minuets, and Other Dance FormsSonatas and CyclesFantasy and Fugue
Richard Freedman is Chair of the Department of Music at Haverford College, where he teaches music history. His interests range from the music of sixteenth-century France and Italy to jazz and the music of South Asia. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught before joining the faculty at Haverford in 1986. He has published numerous articles and books on the history of music, including The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France.