Nate Brown

Listening to The Works

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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.

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Nate Brown

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7 de jul de 2026

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Episódios

Week 29: Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman 15.01.2026

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 this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 26: The Podcast Is Back! 24.12.2025

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 this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 23: Monophony and Mahler (and Mothers) 03.12.2025

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 chant. The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 22: Where Jazz and Classical Meet 25.11.2025

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 week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 21: What is a Monodrama? 18.11.2025

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 week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 20: That's a Wrap on Boulez 10.11.2025

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 . Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com

Week 19: Stravinsky At Last! 06.11.2025

It's Week 19 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Works of Western Music. Find this week's playlist here . Find show notes at natebrownmusic.com .

Week 18: O King, The Waltz King, and The King 28.10.2025

Week 18 of The Works, a project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years. Show notes at natebrownmusic.com Week 18 playlist here on Spotify

Week 17: Serialism and Dance Music 21.10.2025

Welcome to Week 17 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great music of Western civilization! This week's Spotify playlist is here Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 16: Variations and Themes 14.10.2025

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 but also includes Duke Ellington's Fargo ND 1940 concert, which is not available there. A link is on the show notes page, which can be found at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 15: Norwegian Melodies and Hebrew Tragedies 09.10.2025

It's Week 15 of The Works, Nate Brown's project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World. The Spotify playlist for this week is here . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 14: No Clever Title 02.10.2025

It's Week 14 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the masterpieces of Western music. Show notes are available at www.natebrownmusic.com Listen to the pieces for Week 14 on this Spotify playlist .

Week 13: Which Composers Will We Listen to Most Often? 24.09.2025

Welcome to The Works, week 13! This week's Spotify playlist is here . Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com

Week 12: Fugue Subjects and Bel Canto 17.09.2025

Welcome to Week 12 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great works of Western music. In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Bach, Mahler, Boulez, Rossini, and some early rock-and-rollers. The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist . Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com

Week 11: Parallel Minor 09.09.2025

Welcome to Week 11 of The Works! Here is the link to the Spotify playlist for this week. Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com

Week 10: Rock and Roll 03.09.2025

It's Week 10 of Nate Brown's 10-year listening project, The Works! Show notes at natebrownmusic.com Listen to this week's pieces on Spotify with this playlist .

Week 9: Figuring Things Out 26.08.2025

Welcome to Week 9 of The Works! Here is the link to the Spotify playlist for the coming week. Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.com

Week 8: Listening for the Form 20.08.2025

It's Week 8 of Listening to The Works! This is a 10-year project to listen to the great works of Western music. In this episode, we discuss listening for the form in last week's pieces by Ravel, Mahler, Mozart, and Morton. Find show notes at http://www.natebrownmusic.com Here's the playlist for Week 8

Week 7: Musicality 12.08.2025

Welcome to Week 7 of The Works, a ten-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World. In this episode, host Nate Brown discusses the various ways that musicality is expressed in the pieces from last week's listening list. Show notes are available at natebrownmusic.com Here's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.

Week 6: Musical Texture 05.08.2025

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.

Week 5: Inventions, Resurrection and More 29.07.2025

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

Week 4: Not a universal language 22.07.2025

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

Week 3: Opera for the Non-Buff 15.07.2025

Week 3 of Listening to the Works begins here. Show notes at natebrownmusic.com Spotify playlist here

Week 2: Most Triumphant Masterpieces 09.07.2025

Listening to The Works continues, complete with a story about Bill, Ted, and Beethoven! Show notes at natebrownmusic.com Spotify playlist here

Week 1: Welcome to The Works! 02.07.2025

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.

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