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.

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.

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Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I hope you are enjoying season 6 so far! If I haven’t mentioned this before, the 20th century is going to split into 2 seasons; it is way too dense to just have 20 episodes and stop talking about it. Today, we are going to talk about modernism in the US and also address the nationalist movement that it brought. Today’s episode is going to be a little bit shorter because we’ve also chatted about some of these composers and features in our very first modernism episode, which was episode 3.

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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.

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