Dec 21, 2020
Scott, Karl, and Trent explore Vince Guaraldi's timeless Christmas album, the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the 1965 TV special based on Charles Schultz's iconic Peanuts comic strip. At once hopeful and melancholic, Guaraldi's breezy jazz soundscape captures the childhood innocence of the Peanuts cast while...
Dec 1, 2020
This week, Scott, Karl, and Trent trace one of the most influential forces in music and culture: the blues.
The trio talks about the migration of the blues, starting from its origins in slave communities on plantations. As the blues extended its reach in the US, you'll find that each region imparted its own flavor and...
Nov 17, 2020
This week, Scott, Karl, and Trent dive into a brief introduction of tuning and temperament: The math, the musical history, and the relationship of the theoretical with the practical.
The tuning of musical instruments is as ancient as the musical scale. Together, tuning and temperament is the adjustment of...
Nov 3, 2020
This week Scott, Karl, and Trent examine the evolution of old country, folk, and gospel music into the distinctive, high-energy acoustic genre known as bluegrass.
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Oct 22, 2020
Scott, Karl, and Trent explore the string quartets of the Classical period, which lasted from roughly 1730 to 1820, following the Baroque period and preceding the Romantic period.
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