Listening to The Works
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.
Episodes
38 episodes
Week 42: Concertos (Concerti)
Welcome to Week 42 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and geeks out a bit about the trombone.The coming week's pieces are f...
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Episode 42
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31:49
Week 41: The Only Trombone Concertos
Welcome to Week 41 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Pergolesi, Faure, Bellini and Duckworth.The coming week's pieces a...
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Episode 41
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11:13
Week 40: The Long and Short
Welcome to Week 40 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and looks ahead to this week's selections.The coming week's pieces ar...
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Episode 40
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17:06
Week 39: All Over the World
Welcome to Week 39 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Victoria, Sibelius, Leoncavallo, Villa-Lobos, and the pioneers of hip-hop...
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Episode 39
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17:34
Week 38: Requiems (sort of)
Welcome to Week 38 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and explains what elements constitute a requiem mass.The coming week'...
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Episode 38
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22:07
Week 37: Fishing
Welcome to Week 37 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces, gives a summary of the experimental rock artists listened to so far, and in...
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Episode 37
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22:45
Week 36: Music and Race?
Welcome to Week 36 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces, looks ahead to next week, and discusses the racial context of some music.
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Episode 36
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24:35
Week 35: Electronic Pioneers
Welcome to Week 35 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotif...
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Episode 35
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13:20
Week 34: More Tears Coming
Welcome to Week 34 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and previews the week to come.The coming week's pieces are found on <...
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Episode 34
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11:39
Week 33: Recordings and Performances
Welcome to Week 33 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and discusses the issues with listening to recordings of pieces written for ...
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Episode 33
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24:35
Week 32: Eighteenth-Century Aftertouch
Welcome to Week 32 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Dowland, Schubert, C.P.E. Bach, Villa-Lobos, and Monk.The coming w...
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Episode 32
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18:41
Week 31: Death and the Maiden
Welcome to Week 31 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Glass, Schubert, Scarlatti and Monk.The coming week's pieces are f...
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Episode 31
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17:21
Week 30: A Lot of Short Pieces
Welcome to Week 30 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mahler, Feldman, Wagner and the Velvet Underground, and previews the play...
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Episode 30
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33:43
Week 29: Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman
Welcome to Week 29 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks of the project.The coming week's pieces are found on
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Episode 29
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43:21
Week 26: The Podcast Is Back!
Welcome to Week 26 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks.The coming week's pieces are found on
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Episode 26
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29:16
Week 23: Monophony and Mahler (and Mothers)
Welcome to Week 23 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mahler, Telemann, Zappa, Hindemith, and anonymous composers of Gregorian ...
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Episode 23
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17:01
Week 22: Where Jazz and Classical Meet
Welcome to Week 22 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin, Schuller, and Ellington.The coming we...
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Episode 22
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23:52
Week 21: What is a Monodrama?
Welcome to Week 21 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Satie, and Tim Buckley.The coming...
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Episode 21
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31:08
Week 20: That's a Wrap on Boulez
It's Week 20 of The Works, a project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World in 10 years.The playlist for the coming week is here on Spotify...
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Episode 20
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17:39
Week 19: Stravinsky At Last!
It's Week 19 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Works of Western Music.Find this week's pl...
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Episode 19
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15:01
Week 18: O King, The Waltz King, and The King
Week 18 of The Works, a project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years.Show notes at natebrownmusic.comWeek 18 playlist
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Episode 18
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29:15
Week 17: Serialism and Dance Music
Welcome to Week 17 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great music of Western civilization!This week's
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Episode 17
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27:39
Week 16: Variations and Themes
It's Week 16 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!This week's playlist is here on Spotify ...
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Episode 16
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11:09