The Perceptual Revelations of James Tenney

The “Supermusic” of Alvin Lucier

Satie's Nostalgic Masterpiece

George Crumb: The Method Behind the Magic

What is Sign Language Music? [with Dr. Anabel Maler]

The Tradition and Revolution of Max Reger

Schenker (and his Analysis): An Introduction

Do Different Keys Mean Different Things?

Witold Lutosławski and the Taming of Chance

Tuning: An Introduction

Samuel Barber: “Hounded by Success” (with Howard Pollack)

The Fractal Music of Charles Wuorinen

The Woman Whose Millions Shaped 20th-Century Music | The Patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

"The Dean of Afro-American Composers:" William Grant Still’s Life and Work (with Celeste Headlee)

Marian Anderson: “Once in a Hundred Years”

Musical Americana: Stephen Foster, Minstrelsy, and the Birth of Popular Music

Charles Ives: The Eternal Maverick

Brandeis is trying to kill their music PhDs, and why you should care.

The Diatonic Scale is Unique, and Here's Why

The Enigmatic Edward Elgar

Robert Carl on Postmodernism, Spectralism, Studying with Xenakis, and More

How We (Don’t) Talk About Music: Cross-Domain Mapping

How Arvo Pärt Tintinnabulates

Schumann’s Diminished Ninth

Write More Parallel Fifths

Franz Liszt: Titan of the Piano

The Tune That Defined a Nation | The Evolution of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

The Sonata: An Introduction

I Tried John Cage’s Weird Mushroom Recipes

Spectralism: An Introduction

Luciano Berio’s Postmodern Paths

Why Do Composers Write Silent Pieces?

The Theremin Cello [with Dr. Jonathan Golove]

Theremin: The Wild History of the Weirdest Instrument

Milton Babbitt’s Musical Tetris

Augmented Sixths: The Chords that Broke Theory

A Complete Guide to New Complexity and its Core Composers

International Man of Mysticism: The Life and Works of Alan Hovhaness

Neo-Riemannian Theory: An Introduction

Krzysztof Penderecki: “Trojan Horse of the Avant-Garde”

Anna Sutyagina on Piano Music & More

Domenico Scarlatti and his 555 Sonatas

Rare Woodwinds and Unique Instruments of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]

Keyboards of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]

The Neglected Genius of Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six, Pt. 7/7]

Francis Poulenc: Whimsy and Sarcasm [Les Six, Pt. 6/7]

Darius Milhaud: Where France Meets Brazil [Les Six, Pt. 5/7]

Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]

Louis Durey: The Composer Who Set Mao to Music [Les Six, Pt. 3/7]

Georges Auric: “Music of Spun Glass” [Les Six, Pt. 2/7]

Les Six: An Introduction [Les Six, Pt. 1/7]

Why Composers Like Mushrooms

Gustav Holst: Beyond the Planets

Race, Gender, and Rediscovery: The Life and Works of Florence Price

Howard Pollack on American Music and Biography Writing

Johann Joseph Fux: Steps to Perfection

Alan Belkin on Salience, David Diamond, and More

Leonard Bernstein: Doomed to Success

How to Run a Summer Festival [with Connecticut Summerfest co-founders Gala Flagello and Aaron Price]

The “Fifth Evangelist:” The Life and Works of Johann Sebastian Bach