First Nights: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra - Harvard University
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Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music. With an apprenticeship you earn while you learn, you gain recognized qualifications, job specific skills and knowledge and this helps you stand out in the job market.With this course you earn while you learn, you gain recognized qualifications, job specific skills and knowledge and this helps you stand out in the job market.
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- Beethoven
- Music
- Classical Music
- 9th Symphony
- Orchestral music
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna in 1824, and continues to be one of the most popular symphonies in the repertoire. The monumental symphony’s size and complexity stretches traditional instrumental forms to the breaking point, and its famous choral finale changed our view of orchestral music forever.
Harvard’s Thomas Forrest Kelly (Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music) guides learners through all four movements of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, highlighting aspects of symphonic form, describing Beethoven’s composition process, the rehearsals and premiere performance, and the work’s continued relevance today.
You will learn the basics of musical form and analysis, the genres and styles used and the circumstances of this symphony’s first performance and subsequent history. Learners in this course need not have any prior musical experience.
- Identify and describe the forms of 18th- and 19th- century orchestral music
- Understand the instruments and voices of the orchestra and choir
- Appreciate cultural context and performance circumstances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
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First Nights: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra - Harvard University