Permanently enrich the way you listen to great classical music with this two-course set taught by award-winning composer and Professor Robert Greenberg.

Start with an unforgettable journey through the often mysterious realm of music theory: the structural and instrumental resources that composers drawn upon to create their masterpieces. Understanding the Fundamentals of Music is a solid introduction to the importance of musical parts such as key signatures, pitch, mode, melody, and meter—all of which are essential to grasping the full power of a piece of music. Learn how to recognize these and other musical components as you listen to works by the great masters. With the information contained in these 16 insightful lectures, you'll find yourself listening to music with new levels of understanding and appreciation.

Then, explore the unmatched beauty, genius, and power of one of the longest-lived and expressive musical genres. In the 24 lectures of The Symphony, Professor Greenberg takes you through the 300-year evolution of this multi-movement composition, from the French Revolution and the Enlightenment to the Roaring Twenties and the Soviet Empire. Along the way, listen to selections from the greatest symphonies of this period, written by masters of the form such as Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich, and Mahler.