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Between the Barlines — 119 episodes
To Let vs To Make: a comeback from perfectionism
Total Serialism
Olivier Messiaen: the birdman
Igor Stravinsky
The Neoclassical Period
More on the Second Viennese School: Berg and Webern
Music Theory Friday: the 12-tone technique
Arnold Schoenberg: the inventive colorist
The avant-garde
English Modernism
Eastern European Modernism
American Moderism
Spanish Nationalism
French Modernists: Debussy and Ravel
Richard Strauss: a bridge between two centuries
Gustav Mahler: the symphonist
Jazz: the true American Sound
What is Modernism?
Vernacular Music: what is meant by this?
Welcome to the 20th Century!
The transition into a new century
Nationalism in late 19th century American Music
The "English Musical Rensaissance"
The Mighty Five
Hybrid Styles in the late 19th Century
Late 19th century Germanicism
Late 19th Century Opera
Giacomo Puccini and the verismo style
Giuseppe Verdi - my "Mean Joe Green"
Richard Wagner and Gesamtkunstwerk
Bel Canto Opera and its composers
19th Century Opera: an overview
Programmatic Music
Orchestral and Chamber Music in the 19th century
Romantic Choral Music
Franz Liszt
Fryderyk Chopin: the virtuoso
Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
19th century Music for the Piano
On 19th century German Poetry
Franz Schubert: the songster
German Lieder in the 19th century
Music in the Industrial Revolution
Romanticism: an era of love and change
Using Beethoven as a transition into the Romantic Era
Ludwig van Beethoven Part 3: Late Period
Ludwig van Beethoven Part 2: Middle Period
Ludwig van Beethoven Part 1: Early Period
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Part 3: Operas, Masses, and Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Part 2: Chamber Music and Symphonies
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Part 1: Works for Keyboard
Franz Joseph Haydn Part 3: the Vocal Works
Franz Joseph Haydn Part 2: the Keyboard Sonatas
Franz Joseph Haydn Part 1: the Symphonies and String Quartets
Keyboard Composers of the 18th Century
Music Theory Friday: Musical Forms
Instrumental Music: the Concerto
Instrumental Music: the Symphony
Instrumental Music: the Sonata
The Beginnings of the German Lied
Christoph Willibald Gluck: the reformer
New Operatic Genres
Types of Early Classical Styles
The Early Classical Era and the Enlightenment
Antonio Vivaldi: a transition between baroque and classical
George Frederic Handel
Development of Conservatories in the early 1700s
J.S. Bach Part 3: the Chamber Works
J.S. Bach Part 2: the Vocal Works
J.S. Bach Part 1: the Keyboard Works
The Lutheran Church and Organ Music
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Music Theory Friday: Counterpoint and Contrapuntal Masterpieces
Jean Baptiste Lully: the orchestrator
Instrumental Music of the 17th Century
Henry Purcell: the theatric
Happenings in other countries in the 17th century
François Couprin: the ornamenter
Sacred Music in the early 17th Century
17th Century Chamber Music
The Beginnings of Opera
From stile antico to stile moderno
Traits of Baroque Era Music
Welcome to the 17th Century: new styles and a transitional period
Tying up loose ends in the Renaissance
Instrumental Music in the 16th century
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: the mediator
The Council of Trent
Later Madrigalists
England and the Madrigal
William Byrd
Other European 16th century Secular Songs and Composers
The Reformation
16th century Italian Madrigal
Josquin Desprez: the influencer
Music Theory Friday: Masses on Borrowed Materials
Franco-Flemish Composers in the 16th century
The Polyphonic Mass
The Burgundian Court and its musicians
The "contenance angloise"
The Renaissance: New Ideas and Expansions
Paving the Road to the Renaissance: 14th Century Music and its Performance Practice
Tying Up Loose Ends Before the Renaissance
What are the formes fixes?
Music Theory Friday: isorhythm and its analysis
14th Century Musical Developments
The Beginnings of the Motet
Music Theory Friday: Organum
Polyphony in the 13th Century
Secular songs between the 11th and 13th centuries
Music Theory Friday: Sightreading and the Guidonian Hand
Hildegard von Bingen and extraneous chants
The Order of the Mass
Music Theory Friday: Church Modes!
The Church and its Foundational Tropes
Antiquity in Greece
Antiquity: Influences from Asia and Europe
Prehistoric Music and the Antiquity
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