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12:04pm Jul 06, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
The Harpsichord: Distinctive Sound And Plenty Of Pluck
What if you took a long, metal string, stretched it out taut, and then plucked it with a feather quill? Admittedly, just one string pluck has a puny sound compared with the modern-day piano.
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1:19pm Jun 29, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Shedding Light On Claude Debussy's Music
Claude Debussy's music continues to be described as "impressionistic", even though the composer himself hated the term. Debussy just wanted to be known as a French composer.
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11:56am Jun 22, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Bach's Mind-Blowing Goldberg Variations
These days, if you have a tough time falling asleep, you might grab yourself a melatonin, turn in early and hope for the best.
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11:19am Jun 15, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Songs Without Words? Yes, Says Felix Mendelssohn
Peter sings without singing with a little help from Felix Mendelssohn. His Songs Without Words was conceived as a song with a singer, yet it has no words.
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1:54pm Jun 08, 2018
Literature's Influence On The Romantic Era In Music
The Romantic Era in music--basically the 19th century--was much more deeply influenced and inspired by literature than love.
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1:09pm Jun 01, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Johann Sebastian Bach: Music For Hearts And Minds
Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in all of music history, but what exactly made him so great?
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11:25am May 25, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Béla Bartók: One Of A Kind
Composer Béla Bartók was the father of ethnomusicology, scouring the villages of Eastern Europe for folk songs.
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12:46pm May 18, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Beethoven's Building Blocks: Musical Motives
In this episode, Peter demonstrates what makes Beethoven such a giant in the world of classical music.
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1:59pm May 11, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
The American Romantics
Peter pays tribute to wonderful late 19th century American composers, some of whom were once considered among the best in the world.
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1:26pm May 04, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Breaking Down Brahms
Brahms was composing in the late 19th century, but he worshipped music of the past. In this episode, Peter shows us how Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven all find their way into Brahms' music.
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1:08pm Apr 27, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
The Minimalist Themes Of Edvard Grieg
In this episode, Peter shows how less is more when it comes to the writing style of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
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1:05pm Apr 20, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Mozart And Sonatas
The word 'sonata' simply means 'sounded', but when it comes to the classical period in music, there's a lot more to it than that.
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1:02pm Apr 13, 2018Arts Arts Music & Culture
Robert Schumann's Scenes of Childhood
In this episode, Peter explores Robert Schumann's nostalgic Scenes of Childhood. The set of thirteen pieces paints different pictures of the composer's idealized childhood.