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The course has 17 units, and is designed for use over two semesters.
Unit 1: Using Music History to Unlock Western Culture
Unit 2: Music Entwined with Great Events of Western History
Unit 3: Technology, Terminology, and Cultural Perspective
Unit 4: Fanfare and Power: The Court of Louis XIV
Unit 5: Sweeping Away the Renaissance into the Baroque
Unit 6: Liturgical Calendar, Street Parties, and the New Church Music
Unit 7: A Lively Journey Through the Life of Johann Sebastian Bach
Unit 8: Enlightenment, Classicism, and the Astonishing Mozart
Unit 9: Into the Abyss: The Century Struggles with Unfettered Imagination
Unit 10: Beethoven as Hero and Revolutionary
Unit 11: Salons, Poetry, and the Power of Song
Unit 12: A Tale of Four Virtuosi and the Birth of the Tone Poem
Unit 13: Nationalism and the Explosion of Romantic Opera
Unit 14: The Absolutely New World of Wagner
Unit 15: Imperial Russia – A Cultural Odyssey
Unit 16: Load Up the Wagons: The Story of American Music
Unit 17: Turning the Page on Western Tradition with the Explosion of War