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How Music Does That — 87 episodes

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Title
1

The 1977 Line

2

The Haunting of Figure 8

3

How MUZAK Does That

4

Riffing on Each Other

5

Anatomy of an Earworm

6

When the Music Doesn't Trust You

7

Unsung

8

The King of Space-Age Pop!

9

Clap When You Damn Well Please [Encore]

10

The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell [Encore]

11

The Evolution of Cool [Encore]

12

Grooves [Encore]

13

Beethoven Was Deaf [Encore]

14

Silence [Encore]

15

Where Did We Put Vivaldi? [Encore]

16

Encore: Stop Practicing, You're Ruining EVERYTHING

17

ENCORE: The Rage of the Third Sons (Carmina Burana)

18

ENCORE: The Aging White Suburban Music Professor's Guide to Hip Hop

19

ENCORE: The Bones of Yellow Brick Road

20

ENCORE: The Sweet Madness of Big Meters

21

The Worst Song In The World

22

The Man Who Tried to Strangle Film Music in Its Crib

23

ENCORE: As White as Classical

24

When You Were Twelve

25

When Mind and Music Fall Apart

26

Dickinson's Island, and Other Unholy Monsters

27

The Unwiggled String

28

The Long Way Home in 'Hallelujah'

29

Black Shanty

30

Where Did We Put Vivaldi?

31

TikTok and the Hypnotics

32

TikTok and the Vibe

33

Music is Made of Time

34

The Deep Playlist of Generation Z

35

Yeah, But Why THOSE 4 Chords?

36

Whose Monkey Chant Is It Anyway?

37

As White as Classical

38

The Words Get In the Way

39

Shortcut: How I Solved the Musical Mystery of My Life

40

The Epitome Trap

41

Minimal.

42

The Aging White Suburban Music Professor's Guide to Hip Hop

43

When Ravel Met Ravel

44

Clap When You Damn Well Please

45

Silence

46

The Dead and the Impossible

47

Grooves

48

Too Many Notes!

49

The Rage of the Third Sons (Carmina Burana)

50

Missing Music

51

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

52

The Jabberwocky of Harry Potter

53

The Magical Bell Piano

54

Stop Practicing, You're Ruining EVERYTHING

55

The Bones of Yellow Brick Road

56

The Fingerprints of Music

57

Beethoven was Deaf

58

Disoriented

59

The Sweet Madness of Big Meters

60

Sometimes It's the Little Things

61

The Mellotron

62

Simplicity, in Three Pärts

63

The Gnome

64

Mister Rogers and the Musical Easter Egg

65

Isn't It Iconic?

66

Wolfie's Alarm Clock (The Leading Tone)

67

The Bagpipe Incident on Which I Thought We Had Agreed Not to Dwell

68

When Pianos Land in Oz

69

Hating Your Golden Goose

70

I Coulda Been Peter Best

71

I Coulda Been John Williams

72

Yes, 'Stairway' Was Stolen... Just Like Everything Else

73

Two Kinds of Hurt

74

Dissonance is Delicious

75

The Pokémon Suicide Song

76

Surprise Part 2 - The Rite of Spring

77

A Brief History of Surprise (I)

78

The Music That Broke My Heart

79

Every Note is a Chord

80

The Moment I Surrendered to John Williams

81

Shortcut: The Most Hopeful Music in the World

82

Cage Unlocked

83

The Masterpiece I Never Heard Of

84

Let's Get Sad with Galileo's Dad

85

When Truman Touches the Wall

86

The Strange DNA of a Surf Song

87

The Evolution of Cool