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EPISODE · Mar 23, 2025 · 26 MIN

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music: Surviving Centuries of Dead People's Greatest Hits

from It’s Not Me, It’s the Piano! · host Luis Magalhães

Welcome to Episode 8 of It’s Not Me, It’s The Piano!—the only classical music podcast brave enough to ask, “What is a fugue, and should I get tested for it?”In this musical fever dream, host Luis drags you through 800 years of music history with the grace of a harpsichord falling down a flight of stairs. From Gregorian monks humming into stone walls, to Romantic composers emotionally combusting into full orchestras, to Schoenberg reinventing music as a form of psychological warfare—this is your crash course in classical music, for people who don’t have the patience, pretension, or PhDs.🎙️ Come for the jokes, stay for the sudden existential crisis about whether anyone actually knows what counterpoint is.#ItsNotMeItsThePiano#ClassicalMusicForIdiots#DeadComposersGreatestHits#FugueStateOfMind#BaroqueAndUnwell#MozartWasAPrankster#SchoenbergRuinedMyLife#PhilipGlassOnRepeat#MusicalImposterSyndrome#ConcertPretenderStarterPack#ClassicalMusicIsHard#IClappedBetweenMovements#CadenzaConfusion#PreSaveTheAlbumOrElse#SurvivingSymphonies#ModernMusicMadness#OperaNextWeekHelpMe

Welcome to Episode 8 of It’s Not Me, It’s The Piano!—the only classical music podcast brave enough to ask, “What is a fugue, and should I get tested for it?”In this musical fever dream, host Luis drags you through 800 years of music history with the grace of a harpsichord falling down a flight of stairs. From Gregorian monks humming into stone walls, to Romantic composers emotionally combusting into full orchestras, to Schoenberg reinventing music as a form of psychological warfare—this is your crash course in classical music, for people who don’t have the patience, pretension, or PhDs.🎙️ Come for the jokes, stay for the sudden existential crisis about whether anyone actually knows what counterpoint is.#ItsNotMeItsThePiano#ClassicalMusicForIdiots#DeadComposersGreatestHits#FugueStateOfMind#BaroqueAndUnwell#MozartWasAPrankster#SchoenbergRuinedMyLife#PhilipGlassOnRepeat#MusicalImposterSyndrome#ConcertPretenderStarterPack#ClassicalMusicIsHard#IClappedBetweenMovements#CadenzaConfusion#PreSaveTheAlbumOrElse#SurvivingSymphonies#ModernMusicMadness#OperaNextWeekHelpMe

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Welcome to Episode 8 of It’s Not Me, It’s The Piano!—the only classical music podcast brave enough to ask, “What is a fugue, and should I get tested for it?”In this musical fever dream, host Luis drags you through 800 years of music history with the...

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