The Listener's Guide

Did you know that one of the foremost innovators of the synthesizer is a trans woman? Meet Wendy Carlos, composer extraordinaire!

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Periods were the most common kinds of phrases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. How did they work?

Beethoven is a composer so well-known that his music has even seeped into popular culture. But what made him so famous in the first place? Pieces used: 12 Country Dances, courtesy of the European Archive (Public Domain) Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major "Eroica," I. Allegro con brio, performed by the MusOpen Symphony (Public Domain) Symphony No. 5 in C minor, IV. Allegro, courtesy of the YouTube Music Library Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, I. Allegro di molto e con brio, performed by Paul Pitman (Public Domain) Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral," IV., courtesy of the YouTube Music Library Wellington's Victory, performed by Jason Weinberger and the wcfsymphony, released under Creative Commons 3.0 (http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_3.0).https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/303547/hfal. If you would like to see this and more videos, plus exclusive patron-only content, please consider donating to TLG’s Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/thelistenersguide! Special thanks to our fantastic First Balcony and Orchestra patrons, Liz, Tom, and Marie Johnson! You’re the best! Follow us all over the internet: Facebook: http://facebook.com/listenersguide Twitter: http://twitter.com/listeners_guide Twitter (Steve): http://twitter.com/SteveTomJohn Tumblr: http://thelistenersguide.tumblr.com/ Wind Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 103, I. Allegro, by Ludwig van Beethoven and performed by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Available for download athttps://musopen.org/music/download/10098/.

I hope I can make it abundantly clear: TLG is absolutely committed to promoting diversity in classical music. We should be long past the days when it was under near-exclusive control of rich, straight, white, Christian men, who were often literally imperialists, but until that day arrives, I will be telling the stories of those who do not fit that mold.

John Cage’s 4’33” made waves in the mid-20th century. While some are quick to dismiss it as being “not music,” it turns out to be much more complicated than it seems at first. After all, for something to be “not music,” something else has to be “music”—and what is *that*? If you would like to see this and more videos, plus exclusive patron-only content, please consider donating to TLG’s Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/thelistenersguide! Special thanks to our Orchestra-level patron, Liz Johnson! You’re the best! Follow us all over the internet: Facebook: http://facebook.com/listenersguide YouTube: http://youtube.com/thelistenersguide Twitter: http://twitter.com/listeners_guide Twitter (Steve): http://twitter.com/SteveTomJohn

Good news - The Listener’s Guide is dropping five new episodes this Wednesday on Patreon! Check out the Patreon page for full details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/five-new-tlg-13555723

(If not, we can still get our hopes up for NerdCon: Nerdfighteria and/or VidCon 2017!)