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Educational videos on music history and theoretical concepts


47:51
The Dizzying Math of Conlon Nancarrow
01:29:59
Bedřich Smetana and the War for the Czech Spirit
55:25
The Perceptual Revelations of James Tenney
55:00
The “Supermusic” of Alvin Lucier
17:48
Satie's Nostalgic Masterpiece
59:54
George Crumb: The Method Behind the Magic
33:50
What is Sign Language Music? [with Dr. Anabel Maler]
46:12
The Tradition and Revolution of Max Reger
45:41
Schenker (and his Analysis): An Introduction
06:33
Do Different Keys Mean Different Things?
01:18:19
Witold Lutosławski and the Taming of Chance
11:25
Tuning: An Introduction
01:18:14
Samuel Barber: “Hounded by Success” (with Howard Pollack)
01:11:26
The Fractal Music of Charles Wuorinen
37:11
The Woman Whose Millions Shaped 20th-Century Music | The Patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
01:16:57
"The Dean of Afro-American Composers:" William Grant Still’s Life and Work (with Celeste Headlee)
36:24
Marian Anderson: “Once in a Hundred Years”
01:10:49
Musical Americana: Stephen Foster, Minstrelsy, and the Birth of Popular Music
02:25:04
Charles Ives: The Eternal Maverick
05:17
Brandeis is trying to kill their music PhDs, and why you should care.
07:39
The Diatonic Scale is Unique, and Here's Why
01:20:01
The Enigmatic Edward Elgar
01:06:16
Robert Carl on Postmodernism, Spectralism, Studying with Xenakis, and More
08:12
How We (Don’t) Talk About Music: Cross-Domain Mapping
10:49
How Arvo Pärt Tintinnabulates
07:12
Schumann’s Diminished Ninth
07:36
Write More Parallel Fifths
01:20:20
Franz Liszt: Titan of the Piano
58:03
The Tune That Defined a Nation | The Evolution of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
01:00:01
The Sonata: An Introduction
08:31
I Tried John Cage’s Weird Mushroom Recipes
38:31
Spectralism: An Introduction
48:01
Luciano Berio’s Postmodern Paths
12:20
Why Do Composers Write Silent Pieces?
17:01
The Theremin Cello [with Dr. Jonathan Golove]
01:15:15
Theremin: The Wild History of the Weirdest Instrument
01:11:31
Milton Babbitt’s Musical Tetris
35:00
Augmented Sixths: The Chords that Broke Theory
01:00:00
A Complete Guide to New Complexity and its Core Composers
45:01
International Man of Mysticism: The Life and Works of Alan Hovhaness
14:31
Neo-Riemannian Theory: An Introduction
42:01
Krzysztof Penderecki: “Trojan Horse of the Avant-Garde”
01:00:01
Anna Sutyagina on Piano Music & More
41:00
Domenico Scarlatti and his 555 Sonatas
17:00
Rare Woodwinds and Unique Instruments of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]
24:00
Keyboards of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]
24:11
The Neglected Genius of Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six, Pt. 7/7]
49:50
Francis Poulenc: Whimsy and Sarcasm [Les Six, Pt. 6/7]
46:01
Darius Milhaud: Where France Meets Brazil [Les Six, Pt. 5/7]
29:42
Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]
17:39
Louis Durey: The Composer Who Set Mao to Music [Les Six, Pt. 3/7]
34:18
Georges Auric: “Music of Spun Glass” [Les Six, Pt. 2/7]
24:27
Les Six: An Introduction [Les Six, Pt. 1/7]
09:40
Why Composers Like Mushrooms
49:32
Gustav Holst: Beyond the Planets
43:01
Race, Gender, and Rediscovery: The Life and Works of Florence Price
01:00:01
Howard Pollack on American Music and Biography Writing
16:42
Johann Joseph Fux: Steps to Perfection
01:01:35
Alan Belkin on Salience, David Diamond, and More
51:51
Leonard Bernstein: Doomed to Success