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Module code and title: A102, An arts foundation course
Item code: A102; AC3
Published: 1988
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Duration: 01:29:03
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Track listing:
track listing for this programme
Track 1 band 1-3. Music examples for Unit 7 "The Nature of Music". Musical examples to accompany Unit 7, which considers the characteristics of the activity people call 'music', and some of the ways in which these characeteristics can be understood and talked about. Examples: Electronic example, Stockhausen, 'Stimmung' (extract)
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Track 2 Bo Diddley, 'Hey Bo Diddley' (extract)
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Track 3 Judy Collins, 'Amazing Grace' (extract)
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Track 4 Richard Middleton invents a tune at the piano
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Track 5 band 4: Listening to the Elements of Music. Bill Strang explores the use of rhythm, melody, harmony, counterpoint, texture, timbre and dynamics, through various musical examples
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Track 6 band 1. Exercise for Listening to the Elements of Music
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Track 7 band 2. Music examples for Unit 8, Part II 'Syntax and Structure'. This band provides musical examples for the consideration of how a composer combines the various elements that were dealt with in Part I. Examples: Movements from Schumann, Carnaval Op 9 (various)
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Track 8 band 3 to 6. Music examples for Unit 9 'Composer and Audience'. This band provides musical examples of two of the largest and richest musical genres, symphony and oratorio, discussed in Unit 9. Examples: Mozart, Symphony No 14 in A major K114 (First movement)
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Track 9 Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique (extract)
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Track 10 Beethoven, Symphony No 6 'Pastoral' (Three extracts)
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Track 11 Handel - Messiah (extract, Nos 13 to 18)
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Producer: Tony Coe
Contributors: Donald Burrows; Richard Middleton; Bill Strang
Publisher: BBC Open University
Master spool number: AC1019
Production number: AC1019
Available to public: no