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Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide — 100 episodes
Scene Breakdown: Mozart‘s Magic Flute
Opera SparkNotes: Mussorgsky‘s Boris Godunov
Opera Sparknotes: Salome, Part 2
Opera Sparknotes: Salome, Part 1
Top 10: John Williams Edition
A Hundred Episodes: A Musical Celebration
What to Expect in a Symphony: Fourth Movements
What to Expect in a Symphony: Third Movements
What to Expect in a Symphony: Slow Movements
What to Expect in a Symphony: First Movements
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: A July 4th Preview
Returning to Live Concerts, Part 2: How to Prepare for a Concert
Returning to Live Concerts, Part 1: Etiquette Q&A
Mozart, Haydn, or Other?
A Musical Winter, Part 2: Schubert's Winterreise
A Musical Winter, Part 1: Haydn's The Seasons
Why Is Classical Music Getting Faster?
Re-Listening to Music
Musical Blind Tasting, Part 2
A Listening Guide for the New Year
Musical Blind Tasting, Part 1
Can Music Be Random?
Is Silence Music?
Listening Tips: Modern and Contemporary Music
Instrument Breakdown: Viola and Cello
Bonus: Election Day Listening Game
Listening Tips: Romanticism
Listening Tips: Classical Style
Listening Tips: Baroque Music
Instrument Breakdown: Violin
Fundamentals Revisited: Mapping
Fundamentals Revisited: Hearing Ideas
Fundamentals Revisited: Listening Attentively
Musical SparkNotes: Götterdammerung, Act 3
Musical SparkNotes: Götterdammerung, Act 2
Musical SparkNotes: Götterdammerung, Act 1
Musical SparkNotes: Siegfried, Act 3
Musical SparkNotes: Siegfried, Act 2
Musical SparkNotes: Siegfried, Act 1
Ring Cycle 2.0: The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack
Musical SparkNotes: Die Walküre, Act 3
Musical SparkNotes: Die Walküre, Act 2
Musical SparkNotes: Die Walküre, Act 1
Musical SparkNotes: Das Rheingold
Musical SparkNotes: Wagner's Ring Cycle (Intro)
Music and Grief: A Tribute to Greg Cardi
Underrated Composers Draft
How to Listen to Modern Music
Interview with Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Music from Pandemic Years: 1918
Music from Pandemic Years: 1910
Music from Pandemic Years: 1890
Music from Pandemic Years: 1854
Music from Pandemic Years: Intro
Chamber Music Draft
Lesser-Known Gems: Bartok's Wooden Prince
Music Theory: Scales and Modes
How Attention Works
Symphonies Draft!
Music and Meditation
ANNOUNCEMENT: Symphonies Draft
Lesser-Known Symphonies: Saint-Saens Third
Lesser-Known Symphonies: Nielsen's Fourth
Top 10: Symphonic Endings
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 10
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 9
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 8, Part 2
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 8, Part 1
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 5
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 7
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 6
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 4
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 3, Part 2
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 3, Part 1
Ten Days of Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Part 2
Ten Days of Mahler: Mahler Symphony No. 2, Part 1
Ten Days of Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Ten Days, Ten Mahler Symphonies!
Gesture in Music
Minisode #3: Bob Dylan and Britten
Top 10: Chamber Music
Minisode #2: Maroon 5 and Pachelbel's Canon
What Does the Conductor Do?
Minisode #1: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Top 10: Miniatures
Bonus Episode: Help Support the Podcast!
Top 10: Symphonies
Beethoven 2020: What's So Great About Beethoven?
A Holiday Music Listening Guide!
Guided Listening w/ Lincoln Center: Bruckner's Fourth
Form, Part 2
Form, Part 1
Rhythm
Harmony
What Makes a Great Melody?
Summer Review!
Composer Pairings
Live Performance Series #2: Musical Decisions
Live Performance Series #1: Technique
Why Listen to Classical Music?