Music Appreciation: Classical Music Wanderlust

On this online 10-week course we will listen to, explore and enjoy a wide range of classical music from its earliest eras through to the present day by well-known and more neglected composers. In doing so each week we will engage with several individual works in different forms, from different historical eras and from different continents in each session thinking about the circumstances of and reasons behind their creation, and the particulars of the sonic landscape they offer through ideas such as genre, nationality / ethnicity, style, technique and arrangement, this will place each piece in context and also allow us to dive into the way it was constructed and is received. To complement this we will also pay attention to the life and background of each different composer and how their approach to composition contributes to a distinctive oeuvre. We will also listen to examples of music from other genres such as world, jazz, film music, contemporary/neo/post-classical, ambient and electronic music.