Music History and Appreciation

• The EAV history of music
  Call Number: ML160 .E3 1986x
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Educational Audio Visual, c1985-c1986
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. + 2 scripts
  Description: Presents students with an introduction to what music is culturally and gives them an outline of the development of Western music
  Contents: pt. 1. Origins and overview (19 min., 54 sec.). pt. 2. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (25 min., 9 sec.). pt. 3. The Baroque era (24 min., 20 sec.). pt. 4. Into the classical period (21 min.) -- pt. 5. Early romanticism (22 min., 33 sec.). pt. 6. Later romanticism (22 min., 49 sec.). pt. 7. The early twentieth century (24 min., 1 sec.). pt. 8. Into the 1980s (20 min., 27 sec.)
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.1
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (35 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 1. Introduction -- lecture 2. Sources : the ancient world and the early church -- lecture 3. The Middle Ages : darkness, change, and diversity -- lecture 5. The Renaissance Mass : Josquin des Prez, Palestrina, and the Counter-Reformation -- lecture 6. Secular music in the late Renaissance and the search for expression : the madrigal -- lecture 7. Introduction to the Baroque -- lecture 8. Style features of Baroque music and a brief tutorial on pitch, motive, melody, and texture
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.2
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (41 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 9. The rise of German nationalism in music -- lecture 10, Fugue -- lecture 11. Baroque opera, part 1 -- lecture 12. Baroque opera, part 2 -- lecture 13. Baroque sacred music, part 1 : the oratorio -- lecture 14. Baroque sacred music, part 2 : the Lutheran church cantata -- lecture 15. Baroque instrumental forms, part 1 : passacaglia -- lecture 16. Baroque instrumental forms, part 2 : ritornello form and the Baroque concerto
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.3
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (40 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 17. The Enlightenment and an introduction to the Classical era -- lecture 18. The Viennese classical style, homophony, and the cadence -- lecture 19. Classical-era form : theme and variations -- lecture 20. Classical-era form : minuet and trio I : Baroque antecedents -- lecture 21. Classical-era form : minuet and trio II -- lecture 22. Classical-era form : rondo -- lecture 23. Classical-era form : sonata-allegro form I, part 1 -- lecture 24. Classical-era form : sonata-allegro form I, part 2
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.4
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (66 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 25. Classical-era form : sonata-allegro form II -- lecture 26. Classical-era orchestral genres : the symphony, music for every person -- lecture 27. Classical-era orchestral genres : the concerto -- lecture 28. Classical-era opera : the development of opera buffa -- lecture 29. Classical-era opera : Mozart and the operatic ensemble -- lecture 30. The French Revolution and an introduction to Beethoven -- lecture 31. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, part 1 -- lecture 32. Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67, part 2
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.5
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (50 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 33. Introduction to romanticism -- lecture 34. Formal challenges and solutions in early romantic music : miniatures, Lieder and Chopin -- lecture 35. Formal challenges and solutions in early romantic music : the program symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique -- lecture 36. Formal challenges and solutions (cont.) -- lecture 37. Nineteenth-century Italian opera : bel canto opera -- lecture 38. Nineteenth-century Italian opera : Giuseppe Verdi -- lecture 39. Nineteenth-century German opera : natonalism and experimentation -- lecture 40. Nineteenth-century German opera : Richard Wagner
  

• How to listen to and understand great music.
  Call Number: ML160 .G74 1998 pt.6
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c1998
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (42 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: lecture 41. The concert overture, part 1 -- lecture 42. The concert overture, part 2 -- lecture 43. Romantic nationalism : post 1848 musical nationalism -- lecture 44. Russian nationalism -- lecture 45. The early 20th century and the modernist movement : an introduction -- lecture 46. Early twentieth-century modernism : the search for a new musical language, Debussy -- lecture 47. Early twentieth-century modernism : the search for a new musical language, Stravinsky -- lecture 48. Early twentieth-century modernism : the search for a new musical language, Schönberg
  

• The first secular music
  Call Number: ML162 .F57 1990
  Location: General
  Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, [1990]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Flutist James Galway discusses the development of music from the early music of the Eastern churches to the birth of the secular song. Several individual performers and musical groups present examples
  

• Discovering the music of the Middle Ages
  Call Number: ML 172 .D5 1968x
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, [198-?], c1968
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (19 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide (1 p. : 28 cm.)
  Description: Traces the growth of polyphonic music, describes the instruments of the period, and surveys the social and religious life of the people
  

• Royal patronage & renaissance
  Call Number: ML172 .R69 1990
  Location: General
  Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, [1990]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: This program covers the patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy
  Contents: the Kings of France
  

• Discovering the music of Latin America
  Call Number: ML199 .D5 1969x
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1969
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide
  Description: Traces the history of Latin American music, pointing out the incorporation of many traditions, the most important of which are Indian and Spanish. Presents some of the modern derivatives, such as the popular dance rhythms of the tango and the rhumba. Includes examples of pre-Columbian instruments
  

• Carnegie Hall at 100;a place of dreams
  Call Number: ML200.8.N52 C337 1991
  Location: General
  Publication information: [New York] : BMG Music, c1991
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (57:09) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A tribute that charts the world-famous concert hall's rich and diverse history with rare archival footage of legendary performances. Also features recollections and appearances by many of the renowned artists who have been associated with the hall, representing classical, jazz, folk and pop music as well as the worlds of theater and film
  

• Vienna-- stripping the facade
  Call Number: ML246.8.V6 V5 1982
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, NY : Media Guild, 1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Using photographs and archival film footage, portrays Vienna in the early twentieth century to show what gave rise to the atonal, innovating music of Arnold Schoenberg and other modern Viennese composers. Explores the political and cultural environments which helped to shape Schoenberg's music, including achievements in the arts, architecture, and literature
  

• Echoes of Victorian England;for God, Queen and country
  Call Number: ML286.4 .E3 1991
  Location: General
  Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, [1991], c1990
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (39 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Explores the Victorian era through its ballads and music with excerpts from the writings of John Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Sanderson, Stopford Brooke, Punch Magazine
  Contents: Musical selections include: Beloved, it is morn / F. Aylward -- Beauty's eyes / F.F. Tosti -- When corals lie / E. Elgar -- The trumpeter / J. Airlie Dix -- The worker / C. Gounod -- Indian nights waltz / L. Adam -- You should see me dance the polka / G. Grossmith -- Chanson de matin / E. Elgar
  

• Technology, trumpets & tunes
  Call Number: ML 930 .T4 1990
  Location: General
  Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1990
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Covers all the wind instruments, including the pipe organ. Considers the way in which the technology of making instruments has affected the course of musical development
  

• Orchestra!
  Call Number: ML1200 .O74 1991
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: [New York] : London ; London : Decca ; [New York] : Manufactured by PolyGram Music Video, p1991
  Physical description: 3 videocassettes (250 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet ([6] p. ; 19 cm.)
  Description: An informative introduction to the symphony orchestra which traces the development of the orchestra from the time of Bach and Handel to the present day
  Contents: v. 1. Introduction to Orchestra! ; Upper strings ; Woodwind -- v. 2. Lower strings ; Brass ; Percussion -- v. 3. Piano ; The conductor ; The making of Orchestra!
  

• Roots of rhythm
  Call Number: ML3475 .R66 1997
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : New Video Group, c1997
  Physical description: 3 videocassettes (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in
  Description: Traces the origins of Latin music from Spain and Africa to the New World (program 1). Focuses on pop music developed in Cuba and examines how North Americans began to discover this island's musical treasures (program 2). Shows how Spanish-African music has become the basic part of popular musical culture of the U.S. (program 3)
  Contents: [pt. 1] Across the ocean -- [pt. 2] The fiery romance -- [pt. 3] To the top of the charts
  

• Tryin' to get home;a history of African American song
  Call Number: ML3479 .B5 1993
  Location: General
  Author: Black, Kerrigan
  Publication information: Berkeley, CA : Heebie Jeebie Music, c1993
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (55 [i.e., 59] min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. + 1 educator's guide
  Description: A one-man show that follows African-American music from slavery's spirituals to contemporary rap. Performed by Kerrigan Black at La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, Calif., June 17, 1990. Includes photos and film clips illustrating aspects of African-American life. Concludes with a brief biographical segment about Kerrigan Black
  Contents: O freedom -- All hid -- John Henry -- Nobody / Bert Williams -- Something doing / Scott Joplin, Scott Hayden -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy -- It don't mean a thing / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills -- Weary / Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf -- In the still of the night / Fred Parris -- How sweet it is / Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland -- My girl / William Robinson, Ronald White -- The tracks of my tears / William Robinson, W. Moore, M. Tarplin -- Stop! in the name of love ; Heat wave / Holland, Dozier, Holland -- Home / Charlie Smalls -- Ya gotta know somethin' 'bout history / Kerrigan Black --Climbing higher mountains
  

• The EAV history of jazz;with Billy Taylor
  Call Number: ML3506 .E3 1986
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : CLEARVUE/eav, c1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide
  Description: Billy Taylor traces jazz music from its beginning through the mid-1980's. Live performances by the Billy Taylor Trio introduce various styles, along with old film footage of great performers
  

• Rock & roll
  Call Number: ML3534 .R63 1995
  Location: General
  Publication information: South Burlington, VT : WGBH, c1995
  Physical description: 5 videocassettes (ca. 113 min. each) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in
  Description: Takes an informative and entertaining look at the world of rock and roll. Includes interviews with performers and people who are professionally involved in music and features a sampling of music by rock performers. Among those interviewed are Prince, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Phillips, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and others
  Contents: v. 1. episode 1. Renegades / written, produced & directed by David Espar. episode 2. In the groove / written, produced & directed by Vicky Bippart & Daniel McCabe -- v. 2. episode 3. Shakespeares in the alley / written, produced & directed by Vicky Bippart & Daniel McCabe. episode 4. Respect / written, produced & directed by David Espar -- v. 3. episode 5. Crossroads / produced & directed by Alan Lewens & Karen Walsh. episode 6. Blues in technicolor / produced & directed by Mike Conefrey -- v. 4. episode 7. The wild side / produced & directed by Hugh Thomson. episode 8. Make it funky / written, produced & directed by Yvonne Smith -- v. 5. episode 9. Punk / produced & directed by Hugh Thomson. episode 10. The perfect beat / produced & directed by Don Letts
  

• American roots music
  Call Number: ML3551 .A547 2001
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : Palm Pictures [distributor], c2001
  Physical description: 2 videodiscs : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: Features historic and documentary footage of 20th century pioneering artists. Includes blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, sydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American music
  Contents: [v. 1.] episode 1. When first unto this country. Fisk Jubilee Singers ; Recorded music ; The Bristol sessions ; Delta blues ; The Grand Ole Opry ; Gospel is born -- episode 2. This land was made for you and me. Cowboy music & western Swing ; Lead Belly & Lomax ; Woody Guthree ; Bluegrass ; Honky tonk ; The blues & radio -- [v. 2.] episode 3. The times they are a-changin'. Chicago blues ; B.B. King ; Golden age of gospel ; The Weavers ; The folk revival ; Newport Folk Festival -- episode 4. All my children of the Sun. Cajun ; Zydeco ; Tejano ; Native American ; Nakai & Mirabal ; Evolution of roots
  

• The way the music died
  Call Number: ML3790 .W39 2004
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c2004
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would generate billions of dollars. But over the last twenty years, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. Frontline examines how the business that has provided the soundtrack of the lives of a generation is on the verge of collapse
  

• What is music?
  Call Number: ML 3800 .W4 1993
  Location: General
  Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Science, 1993, c1989
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: This program examines the question, What is music? Music is a complicated interplay of many different elements, including the imagination of the composer, the skill of the instrument maker, and the talent of the musician. Delving further, what constitutes musical meaning and the process by which it is communicated -- is it purely abstract, or is there a more concrete answer?
  

• Leonard Bernstein at Harvard;the unanswered question Norton lectures 1973
  Call Number: ML3845 .B476 2001
  Location: General
  Author: Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-
  Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2001?], c1992
  Physical description: 6 videodiscs (793 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + contents inserts
  Contents: Lecture 1. Musical phonology (104 min.) Explores the origins and development of music and language, with a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 -- Lecture 2. Musical syntax (95 min.) Compares the structures of music and speech, and discusses the multiple transformations of which both are capable, with examples from Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 -- Lecture 3. Musical semantics (142 min.) Demonstrates layers of meaning in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F. Major, op. 68 -- Lecture 4. The delights and dangers of ambiguity (142 min.) Explorations of new tonal fields by composers of the romantic era. Musical illustrations from Berlioz, Wagner, and Debussy -- Lecture 5. The twentieth century crisis (133 min.) Arnold Schoenberg's movement toward atonality and Gustav Mahler's anticipation of the crisis in twentieth-century music. Includes performances of Ives, Ravel, and Mahler -- Lecture 6. The poetry of earth (177 min.) Examines how Igor Stravinsky kept tonality viable while experimenting freely with dissonance. Includes a complete performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
  

• Impressionism in art and music
  Call Number: ML3849 .I6 1986x
  Location: Circulation Desk
  Publication information: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Educational Audio Visual, 1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Following an on-camera introduction by Roya Megnot, the first part outlines the basic principles of impressionism as practiced by Monet and Debussy. The second part extends the discussion to other artists and composers and seeks to relate the achievements of impressionism to developments in modern music and modern art
  

• Leonard Bernstein's young people's concerts;with the New York Philharmonic
  Call Number: MT 6 .B43 L4 1993
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : Sony Classical, c1993
  Physical description: 3 videocassettes (338 min.) : sd., chiefly b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide (32 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
  Contents: [pt. 1] What does music mean? ; What is sonata form? -- [pt. 2] What is classical music? ; What makes music symphonic? -- [pt. 3] The sound of an orchestra ; What is a melody?
  

• Why toes tap;Marsalis on rhythm
  Call Number: MT42 .W4 1995
  Location: genrl,circd,gnrve,lom,gdhts,wsmt,nap
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Sony Classical Film & Video, c1995
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (52 min., 52 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Uses music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite to explain rhythm and time in music
  

• Listening for clues;Marsalis on form
  Call Number: MT58 .L5 1995
  Location: genrl,circd,gnrve,lom,gdhts,wsmt,nap
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Sony Classical Film & Video, c1995
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (53 min., 58 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Demonstrates structure and form in music and uses examples from Prokofiev to Gershwin, Ellington and Ives to identify different forms
  

• How to attend a concert
  Call Number: MT90 .H69 2001
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : CLEARVUE/eav, c2001
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (19 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (22 p. ; 22 cm.) + 6 worksheets
  Description: Presents an introduction for first-time concertgoers or as a refresher for the seasoned veteran. Viewers are guided through the ins and outs of formal concertgoing. Discovers how to locate performances, find seats, purchase tickets, use a playbill, research the music, follow the protocols of the concert, and much more
  

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2 September 2005