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Listening to The Works
by Nate Brown
Listening to The Works - the great music of the Western world! This is a 10-year project to study the masterpieces in all eras of classical, jazz, and rock.
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Week 51: Miles Davis Wrap-Up
Welcome to Week 51 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Bach, Brahms, Steiner, Davies, and Davis.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 50: More Cowbell
Welcome to Week 50 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Weber, Puccini and Messiaen, and a couple of hip-hop albums.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 49: Clarinet (and Bass Clarinet)
Welcome to Week 49 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Dufay, Liszt, Prokofiev, Shchedrin (or Bizet), and Miles Davis.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 48: More Carmen
Welcome to Week 48 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Bizet, Saint-Saens, Ives, and Miles Davis.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 47: Works Worthy of the Project
Welcome to Week 47 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and explains why some of them were not quite up to snuff, before previewing the pieces coming up in week 47.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 46: Composer Nationalities
Welcome to Week 46 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and provides a quick overview of the nationalities of the composers in the project.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 45: Hello John Cage
Welcome to Week 45 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 44: Miles, Coltrane, and Chambers Part Ways
Welcome to Week 44 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Berlioz, Satie, and Miles Davis.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 43: No Sleep Till Algiers?
Welcome to Week 43 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 42: Concertos (Concerti)
Welcome to Week 42 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and geeks out a bit about the trombone.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 41: The Only Trombone Concertos
Welcome to Week 41 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Pergolesi, Faure, Bellini and Duckworth.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 40: The Long and Short
Welcome to Week 40 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and looks ahead to this week's selections.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 39: All Over the World
Welcome to Week 39 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Victoria, Sibelius, Leoncavallo, Villa-Lobos, and the pioneers of hip-hop.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 38: Requiems (sort of)
Welcome to Week 38 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and explains what elements constitute a requiem mass.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 37: Fishing
Welcome to Week 37 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces, gives a summary of the experimental rock artists listened to so far, and introduces the pieces for week 37.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 36: Music and Race?
Welcome to Week 36 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces, looks ahead to next week, and discusses the racial context of some music.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 35: Electronic Pioneers
Welcome to Week 35 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 34: More Tears Coming
Welcome to Week 34 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and previews the week to come.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 33: Recordings and Performances
Welcome to Week 33 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and discusses the issues with listening to recordings of pieces written for live performance.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 32: Eighteenth-Century Aftertouch
Welcome to Week 32 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Dowland, Schubert, C.P.E. Bach, Villa-Lobos, and Monk.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 31: Death and the Maiden
Welcome to Week 31 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Glass, Schubert, Scarlatti and Monk.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 30: A Lot of Short Pieces
Welcome to Week 30 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mahler, Feldman, Wagner and the Velvet Underground, and previews the playlist for the coming week.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 29: Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman
Welcome to Week 29 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks of the project.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 26: The Podcast Is Back!
Welcome to Week 26 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 23: Monophony and Mahler (and Mothers)
Welcome to Week 23 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mahler, Telemann, Zappa, Hindemith, and anonymous composers of Gregorian chant.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 22: Where Jazz and Classical Meet
Welcome to Week 22 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin, Schuller, and Ellington.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 21: What is a Monodrama?
Welcome to Week 21 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Satie, and Tim Buckley.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 20: That's a Wrap on Boulez
It's Week 20 of The Works, a project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World in 10 years.The playlist for the coming week is here on Spotify.Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com
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Week 19: Stravinsky At Last!
It's Week 19 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Works of Western Music.Find this week's playlist here.Find show notes at natebrownmusic.com.
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Week 18: O King, The Waltz King, and The King
Week 18 of The Works, a project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years.Show notes at natebrownmusic.comWeek 18 playlist here on Spotify
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Week 17: Serialism and Dance Music
Welcome to Week 17 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great music of Western civilization!This week's Spotify playlist is hereShow notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 16: Variations and Themes
It's Week 16 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!This week's playlist is here on Spotify but also includes Duke Ellington's Fargo ND 1940 concert, which is not available there. A link is on the show notes page, which can be found at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 15: Norwegian Melodies and Hebrew Tragedies
It's Week 15 of The Works, Nate Brown's project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World.The Spotify playlist for this week is here.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 14: No Clever Title
It's Week 14 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the masterpieces of Western music.Show notes are available at www.natebrownmusic.comListen to the pieces for Week 14 on this Spotify playlist.
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Week 13: Which Composers Will We Listen to Most Often?
Welcome to The Works, week 13!This week's Spotify playlist is here.Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com
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Week 12: Fugue Subjects and Bel Canto
Welcome to Week 12 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great works of Western music.In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Bach, Mahler, Boulez, Rossini, and some early rock-and-rollers.The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 11: Parallel Minor
Welcome to Week 11 of The Works!Here is the link to the Spotify playlist for this week.Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com
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Week 10: Rock and Roll
It's Week 10 of Nate Brown's 10-year listening project, The Works!Show notes at natebrownmusic.comListen to this week's pieces on Spotify with this playlist.
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Week 9: Figuring Things Out
Welcome to Week 9 of The Works!Here is the link to the Spotify playlist for the coming week.Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.com
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Week 8: Listening for the Form
It's Week 8 of Listening to The Works! This is a 10-year project to listen to the great works of Western music. In this episode, we discuss listening for the form in last week's pieces by Ravel, Mahler, Mozart, and Morton.Find show notes at http://www.natebrownmusic.comHere's the playlist for Week 8
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Week 7: Musicality
Welcome to Week 7 of The Works, a ten-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World.In this episode, host Nate Brown discusses the various ways that musicality is expressed in the pieces from last week's listening list.Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.comHere's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.
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Week 6: Musical Texture
It's Week 6 of The Works, a ten-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World.This episode uses last week's listening list as a springboard to discussion of musical texture.Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.comHere's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.
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Week 5: Inventions, Resurrection and More
Week 5 of The Works, Nate Brown's project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years.In this episode we talk about what we listened to last week, the aesthetics of miniature masterpieces for solo piano, and how film scores fit into the project.Here's the Spotify playlist for week 5.Show notes at www.natebrownmusic.com
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Week 4: Not a universal language
Week 4 of The Works! Here's the new podcast episode, in which I review last week's pieces, talk about listening to music in other languages, and preview the works coming up this week.Here is the Spotify playlist containing the recordings for Week 4.Show notes at natebrownmusic.com
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Week 3: Opera for the Non-Buff
Week 3 of Listening to the Works begins here.Show notes at natebrownmusic.comSpotify playlist here
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Week 2: Most Triumphant Masterpieces
Listening to The Works continues, complete with a story about Bill, Ted, and Beethoven!Show notes at natebrownmusic.comSpotify playlist here
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Week 1: Welcome to The Works!
In this introductory episode, host Nate Brown describes the scope and purpose of his project: to listen to The Works!Find show notes and links at natebrownmusic.comFind this week's Spotify playlist here.
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Listening to The Works - the great music of the Western world! This is a 10-year project to study the masterpieces in all eras of classical, jazz, and rock.
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