Course Lecture Titles 1. Music as a Mirror 2. Sources—The Ancient World and the Early Church 3. The Middle Ages 4. Introduction to the Renaissance 5. The Renaissance Mass 6. The Madrigal 7. An Introduction to the Baroque Era 8. Style Features of Baroque-era Music 9. National Styles—Italy and Germany 10. Fugue 11. Baroque Opera, Part 1 12. Baroque Opera, Part 2 13. The Oratorio 14. The Lutheran Church Cantata 15. Passacaglia 16. Ritornello Form and the Baroque Concerto 17. The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era 18. The Viennese Classical Style, Homophony, and the Cadence 19. Classical-era Form—Theme and Variations 20. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio: Baroque Antecedents 21. Classical-era Form—Minuet and Trio Form 22. Classical-era Form—Rondo Form 23. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 1 24. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 2 25. Classical-era Form—Sonata Form, Part 3 26. The Symphony—Music for Every Person 27. The Solo Concerto 28. Classical-era Opera—The Rise of Opera Buffa 29. Classical-era Opera, Part 2—Mozart and the Operatic Ensemble 30. The French Revolution and an Introduction to Beethoven 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 1 32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, Part 2 33. Introduction to Romanticism 34. Formal Challenges and Solutions in Early Romantic Music 35. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 1 36. The Program Symphony—Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Part 2 37. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Bel Canto Opera 38. 19th-Century Italian Opera—Giuseppe Verdi 39. 19th-Century German Opera—Nationalism and Experimentation 40. 19th-Century German Opera—Richard Wagner 41. The Concert Overture, Part 1 42. The Concert Overture, Part 2 43. Romantic-era Musical Nationalism 44. Russian Nationalism 45. An Introduction to Early 20th-Century Modernism 46. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Claude Debussy 47. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Igor Stravinsky 48. Early 20th-Century Modernism—Arnold Schönberg

J.K. Rowling's complete internationally mega bestselling "Harry Potter" series is brilliantly brought to life by Stephen Fry. From Harry's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to his final battle with arch-enemy Voldemort, listen to the seven spellbinding novels in the "Harry Potter" series being read by Stephen Fry. Enjoy the hundreds of voices and be engrossed by the 124 hours and 56 minutes of splendid storytelling.

Jeremy Irons reads Evelyn Waugh's classic tale of love and the loss of innocence. Charles Ryder's friendship with the charming, irrepressible Sebastian Flyte and his equally charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and driving in the country soon end, however, as Sebastian's health deteriorates. Questions about mortality and religion are raised, and the radiant tone gives way to a bleak atmosphere of shattered illusion...Moving from the decadence of the Roaring Twenties to the austerity of the Second World War, the novel conjures up a lost age, and is Waugh's most moving, romantic and controversial work. Jeremy Irons starred as Charles Ryder in the acclaimed television production of "Brideshead Revisited", which is now a major motion picture starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon.

1725 to Italian and Spanish parentage, Giacomo Casanova lived a long and exciting life. A scholar and an adventurer, Casanova traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia associating with rulers and Kings. Of course Casanova is most well-known for his womanizing and he reveals time after time how he just couldn’t help falling in love! His eloquence and charm will not be lost on the listener either: the writing is remarkably modern, accessible and funny, too. It took Casanova eighteen years to write his memoirs and a further one hundred for them to be classified as genuine. In this audio recording, Casanova charts his childhood and life as a young man in Venice and Italy. A tie-in Recording to the Heath Ledger film Casanova in 2005 Read By Benedict Cumberbatch Abridged Recording Date: 2006 mp3/64Kbps

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.