Between the Barlines

Between the Barlines

by Maeve Berry

Performing Arts

Season 5

The transition into a new century

Welcome back to Between the Barlines. We’ve made it to the last episode of season 5! Thanks for joining me this season. I’m excited about next season, because we will be exploring the first half of the 20th century. This is also where our musical history becomes extremely dense - I’m going to split the 20th century into at least 2 seasons, so be on the lookout! Today, we are going to chat about the transition from the 19th century into the 20th century to wrap up the season. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Nationalism in late 19th century American Music

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going to continue our chat about nationalism, but this time we will be focusing on American nationalism in the late 19th century. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

The "English Musical Rensaissance"

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we’re going to speak about England in the 19th century. As you may have noticed, we really haven’t spoken too much about this country in our episodes since maybe the renaissance era. I think that is especially poignant in today’s episode because we can finally understand why - it took a while, but eventually England was able to find its own national voice, much like other countries that we’ve spoken about at the end of the 19th century. This is the topic of the English Musical Renaissance. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Music mentioned in this podcast: Hubert Parry - Jerusalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfbEOFLqPE C. V. Stanford - Three Latin Motets, Op. 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uvUwD81-8 Edward Elgar - The Enigma Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo Elgar - Sea Pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauIMo8Manc

The Mighty Five

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we turn our attention to 19th-century Russia, which at this time was a country bursting with folk traditions, vast landscapes, and an identity that hadn’t yet found its place on the classical stage. That is until five composers decided to change everything. They called themselves The Mighty Handful. We know them today as The Mighty Five: Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

Hybrid Styles in the late 19th Century

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we have a very interesting discussion about hybrid styles. You might be wondering what this means, and I think it actually revolves around one question: What happens when composers merge national traditions, older musical forms, and new harmonic languages all at once? Composers mentioned as hybrid composers: Franck, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Chausson, D'Indy, Dvořák, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Borodin. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Music mentioned in this podcast: Franck Symphony in D minor Franck Violin Sonata in A major Franck Symphonic Variations Franck String Quartet in D major Fauré Requiem Fauré Nocturnes Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande Suite Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 Chausson Poème Chausson Symphony in B-flat major D'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air

Late 19th century Germanicism

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today we finally stop talk about opera and switch gears to speak strictly about what was happening in the late 19th century in Germany. Some of our most popular and renowned composers are coming from this time frame, like Brahms, Wagner, Bruckner, Wolf, and Strauss. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Music mentioned in this episode: Brahms Symphonies 1-4 Brahms Violin Concerto Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Brahms Violin Sonatas 1-3 Brahms Clarinet Sonatas 1 & 2 Wolf Mörike Lieder Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch 1 & 2 Strauss Don Juan Strauss Till Eulenspiegel Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Strauss Allerseelen Strauss September

Late 19th Century Opera

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we’re discussing the changes happening in the late 19th century. This was the era of French lyricism, Italian verismo, and the beginnings of Russian opera. By the 1870s and 1880s, audiences wanted something new. The grandeur of earlier Romantic opera was there, but people yearned for realism and emotional immediacy. The result was an operatic world more intimate, visceral, and recognizably human than ever before. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Operas mentioned in this episode: Gounod - Faust Bizet - Carmen Massenet - Manon Massenet - Werther Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila Delibes - Lakmé Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana Leoncavallo - Pagliacci Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Giacomo Puccini and the verismo style

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! We are almost done with our episodes addressing opera in the 19th century. Today’s episode is one that I have been looking forward to the most, because as of last year, Giacomo Puccini broke into my top five favorite composers, specifically because of his operas Tosca and Madama Butterfly that we did at Pittsburgh Opera. I’m really excited to talk to you about him today and encourage you to take a listen to some of the operas listed in the episode notes for an extended treat. In this episode, we will also discuss the verismo style of Italian opera. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Operas mentioned in this episode: Manon Lescaut La Bohème Tosca Madama Butterfly La Fanciulla del West Gianni Schicchi Turandot

Giuseppe Verdi - my "Mean Joe Green"

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! We are going to continue our chat on 19th century opera today with another innovator of opera, Giuseppe Verdi. Or as we refer to him sometimes in the opera world - Mean Joe Green!! Throughout Verdi’s lifetime, he wrote 28 operas, all of which continued the innovations that we saw at the beginning of the century with bel canto singing. Today we will see what these traits and innovations were as well as touch on many of his operas. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Operas mentioned in this episode: Oberto Nabucco Ernani Macbeth Luisa Miller Rigoletto Il Trovatore La Traviata Don Carlos Aida Otello Falstaff

Richard Wagner and Gesamtkunstwerk

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am excited again to continue our chat about 19th century opera, with today’s focus being on the works of Richard Wagner. We will learn that Wagner wasn’t just a composer; he was a dramatist, philosopher, and provocateur whose ideas reshaped what opera could be. His music is monumental and his legacy is deeply complicated. TW: discussing antisemitism, Hitler, Third Reich. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines Operas mentioned in this episode: The Flying Dutchman Tannhäuser Lohengrin Der Ring des Nibelungen Tristan und Isolde Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Parsifal

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