Listening to The Works

Listening to The Works

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Listening to The Works episodes

  • Week 6: Musical Texture

    It's Week 6 of The Works, a ten-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World.

    This episode uses last week's listening list as a springboard to discussion of musical texture.

    Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.com

    Here's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.

    19 min
  • Week 5: Inventions, Resurrection and More

    Week 5 of The Works, Nate Brown's project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years.

    In this episode we talk about what we listened to last week, the aesthetics of miniature masterpieces for solo piano, and how film scores fit into the project.

    Here's the Spotify playlist for week 5.

    Show notes at www.natebrownmusic.com

    28 min
  • Week 4: Not a universal language

    Week 4 of The Works! Here's the new podcast episode, in which I review last week's pieces, talk about listening to music in other languages, and preview the works coming up this week.

    Here is the Spotify playlist containing the recordings for Week 4.

    Show notes at natebrownmusic.com

    24 min
  • Week 1: Welcome to The Works!

    In this introductory episode, host Nate Brown describes the scope and purpose of his project: to listen to The Works!

    Find show notes and links at natebrownmusic.com

    Find this week's Spotify playlist here.

    35 min

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Listening to The Works - the great music of the Western world! This is a 10-year project to study the masterpieces in all eras of classical, jazz, and rock.