Between the Barlines

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! It's been awhile! I've been reconfiguring my schedule for this podcast as well as recovering from some burnout. In this podcast, I talk about a concept that I just learned and needed to share with everyone: to let vs to make. In this podcast, I also speak on topics like burnout, perfectionism, emotion regulation, and pressure.

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we are going to continue talking about serialism, but we are going to address some other composers who latched on to Schoenberg’s new 12-tone technique. These composers did not only that, but also expanded this technique to crazy levels. We call this, total serialism. Some composers who embraced this were Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. We will also talk about Luciano Berio in this episode.

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Music mentioned in this podcast:

Babbitt Three Compositions for Piano

Boulez Structures for two pianos :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sfGLoF5IUY

Stockhausen Kontra-Punkte

Stockhausen Gruppen

Berio Sequenza III for solo voice

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.

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Music mentioned in this episode:

Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Vingt regards sur l’enfant-jésus

Poèmes pour mi

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today we have a fun episode where we are going to explore all about the composer Igor Stravinsky. I also have a special guest joining me, because I am currently in Toledo, OH where I just saw Donizetti’s Elixir of Love. Please welcome Rick Hale to the podcast!

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Music mentioned in the podcast:

Rite of Spring

Firebird

Petrushka

The Rake's Progress

Pulcinella

Requiem Canticles

Movements for Piano and Orchestra

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 back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going to chat about the other two composers from the Second Viennese School in more depth; these composers are Alban Berg and Anton Webern. We know that Arnold Schoenberg was also a part of this group of composers, so if you want to learn more about him, I suggest you listen to the last two episodes! Berg and Webern were some of his first students who got to see serialism and 12-tone technique from its inception.

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Music mentioned in this episode:

Berg - Wozzeck

Berg - Lulu

Berg - Sieben frühe Lieder

Berg - Nacht from Sieben frühe Lieder: https://youtu.be/x2FpwIUMtVo

Webern - Three Little Pieces, op. 11: https://youtu.be/BzYBLDyKvYo?si=5KmEagaoKzQaEiKa

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.

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Link to analysis of Dallapiccola piece: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFhyGzp2qQ1QlbaFuZNxneACAZpLnADa/view?usp=share_link

Music mentioned/played in this episode:

Luigi Dallapiccola - "Contrapunctus secundus” no. 5 from Quaderno musicale di Annalibera

Schoenberg - Sechs kleine Stücke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7RvUn1Sas

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we have another episode about a fascinating composer who was responsible for yet again changing the history of music; this composer is Arnold Schoenberg. We will learn about his compositional style, techniques, and music in today’s episode.

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Music mentioned in today's podcast:

Vier Lieder, Op. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3niG27Xyw

Serenade, Op. 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG6wiQnp6pQ

Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16, No. 3 "Farben": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cpMepVZyc

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! I cannot wait to finally finish up our chat about modernism today! Today, we’re diving into how British composers responded to modernism, why it sounded different from its European counterparts, and how it reshaped the nation’s musical identity.