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Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going to speak about another composer who was particularly influential in this post-tonal timeframe that we are going through - and that was Olivier Messiaen. I know I said in the last episode we would be chatting more about serialist composers and extensions of serialism, but I think it is important that we discuss Messiaen, as many of those composers studied with him.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this episode:Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)Vingt regards sur l’enfant-jésusPoèmes pour mi

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we move on to another genre of music that was developing in the 20th century; this was Neoclassicism. We are going to chat about specific traits of neoclassical music as well as composers who pioneered and shaped this style in today’s episode.

Welcome to Between the Barlines! It’s MUSIC THEORY FRIDAY! This is the first one we’ve had in a while, but I really wanted to talk about the topic we have on the docket today more in-depth. This topic is dodecaphony or the 12-tone technique. Our basic definition for this is a compositional system where all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are treated equally. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesLink to analysis of Dallapiccola piece: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFhyGzp2qQ1QlbaFuZNxneACAZpLnADa/view?usp=share_linkMusic mentioned/played in this episode:Luigi Dallapiccola - "Contrapunctus secundus” no. 5 from Quaderno musicale di AnnaliberaSchoenberg - Sechs kleine Stücke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7RvUn1Sas

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today we are finally moving on from Modernism and will be chatting about the avant-garde. In the years prior to WW1, we were seeing a change from modernism into what we call the avant-garde. This was basically any composer who was really straying from convention.

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! We have only two more short episodes talking about modernism; today we will speak about Eastern European Modernism, and next time we will talk about modernism happening in Britain. We have two very important composers to chat about today: Leoš Janáček and Jean Sibelius.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are exploring Spanish nationalism - which was essentially their modernism movement. In the early 20th century, Spain was creating its own modern musical identity. Spanish modernism is tradition meeting innovation: think of ancient folk sounds colliding with impressionism, neoclassicism, and the avant-garde. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today, we’re diving into the bold and sometimes controversial world of Richard Strauss. He was a composer who pushed late Romantic music to its expressive limits while standing on the threshold of modernism. Strauss was a master of orchestral color, psychological drama, and sonic spectacle, and his music spans three major genres: tone poems, opera, and art song. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I have a very fun episode planned for us today where we will take a hiatus from talking about strict classical music and explore the formation of jazz. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! I am excited to talk about today’s episode topic because I feel like it is especially pertinent to the music being created in the USA during this part of the century. As we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA this year, I want to draw your attention to something I mentioned last season; that is, if you think about it, our country was really shaped by foreigners in many senses of the word “shape.” It wasn’t until about the 20th century where America embodied nationalism and created their own voice - vernacular music was a humongous part of this transformation. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome back to Between the Barlines. We’ve made it to the last episode of season 5! Thanks for joining me this season. I’m excited about next season, because we will be exploring the first half of the 20th century. This is also where our musical history becomes extremely dense - I’m going to split the 20th century into at least 2 seasons, so be on the lookout! Today, we are going to chat about the transition from the 19th century into the 20th century to wrap up the season.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we’re going to speak about England in the 19th century. As you may have noticed, we really haven’t spoken too much about this country in our episodes since maybe the renaissance era. I think that is especially poignant in today’s episode because we can finally understand why - it took a while, but eventually England was able to find its own national voice, much like other countries that we’ve spoken about at the end of the 19th century. This is the topic of the English Musical Renaissance.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this podcast:Hubert Parry - Jerusalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfbEOFLqPEC. V. Stanford - Three Latin Motets, Op. 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uvUwD81-8Edward Elgar - The Enigma Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqoElgar - Sea Pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauIMo8Manc

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we have a very interesting discussion about hybrid styles. You might be wondering what this means, and I think it actually revolves around one question: What happens when composers merge national traditions, older musical forms, and new harmonic languages all at once? Composers mentioned as hybrid composers: Franck, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, D'Indy, Dvořák, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Borodin.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this podcast:Franck Symphony in D minorFranck Violin Sonata in A majorFranck Symphonic VariationsFranck String Quartet in D majorFauré RequiemFauré NocturnesFauré Pelléas et Mélisande SuiteSaint-Saëns Organ SymphonySaint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2Chausson PoèmeChausson Symphony in B-flat majorD'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air