DVD.

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Part 6 of 6; discs 11 and 12 of 12.

Lecturer, Robert Greenberg.

SUMMARY: Discusses descriptive or "program" music of the 19th century, as well as musical nationalism and eroticism. Examines changes to the musical language influenced by scientific, technological, and intellectual changes with the 20th century.

Contents: The concert overture, part 1 -- The concert overture, part 2 -- Romantic nationalism: post 1848 musical nationalism -- Russian nationalism -- The early 20th century and the modernist movement: an introduction -- Early twentieth-century modernism: the search for a new musical language: Debussy -- Early twentieth-century modernism: the search for a new musical language: Stravinsky -- Early twentieth-century modernism: the search for a new musical language Schonberg.