The Symphony

lecture 1. Let's take it from the top!

lecture 2. The concerto and the orchestra

lecture 3. The pre-Classical symphony

lecture 4. Mannheim

lecture 5. Classical masters

lecture 6. Franz Joseph Haydn, part 1

lecture 7. Franz Joseph Haydn, part 2

lecture 8. Mozart

lecture 9. Beethoven

lecture 10. Schubert

lecture 11. Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique

lecture 12. Mendelssohn and Schumann

lecture 13. Franck, Saint-Saens, and the symphony in France

lecture 14. Nationalism and the symphony

lecture 15. Brahms, Bruckner, and the Viennese symphony

lecture 16. Gustav Mahler

lecture 17. Nielsen and Sibelius

lecture 18. The symphony in Russia

lecture 19. Charles Ives

lecture 20. Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber

lecture 21. Roy Harris and William Schuman

lecture 22. The twentieth-century British symphony

lecture 23. Olivier Messiaen and Turangalila!

lecture 24. Dmitri Shostakovich and his Tenth symphony.