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Understanding Music: 32 Journeys in Musical Decoding
Think like a musician
Completed · 61 episodes
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Qin Wenchen: Seeking Answers to Life through Performance and Music Research Jiang Song: Let's Discover the Secret of Why Music Moves Us Chiao Yuan-Pu: Across Past and Present—and Beyond Music! Music for Everyone: Restoring Your Right to Music 01. Can Music Be Put into Words? 02. Synesthesia and Sonic Experiment in Music 03. An Emotional General Store: Training Synesthesia and Accumulating a Sense of Life 04. Music Theory Linked to Physiology: Rhythm, Scales, and Intervals 05. The Mysterious Four Pillars of Composition: Harmony, Form, Orchestration, and Counterpoint 06. Music's “Da Vinci Code”: Musical Rhetoric and Semiotics 07. The Evolution of Musical Genres: 55 Pieces from Bach to Harry Potter 08. How Music Becomes the Devil's Accomplice: Beware of “Hypnosis”! 09. Changing Taste through the History of the Orchestra 10. Why Has Modern Music Become So Hard to Understand? Bonus: The Limits of Verse-Chorus-Bridge Analysis | The Form of “Bohemian Rhapsody” 11. High versus Low: Where Does Music's Hierarchy of Contempt Come From? 12. Three Stages of Listening: Mountains Are Mountains, Then Not, Then Mountains Again Bonus: Does Music Make Us Stronger or More Vulnerable? | Sensitivity and Insensitivity 13. Understanding through World Music: Mode as the DNA of Musical Cultures 14. East Asian Music: China, Japan, and Korea—Emptiness, Mono no Aware, Han, and Regret 15. West Asia, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa: How to Read the Comic Oriental Piano 16. South and Southeast Asian Music: The Most Healing “Sounds of the Divine Realm” Jiang Song × Shen Yuan: How Do We Find Freedom within Art's “Order”? 17. North and South America: Jazz and Tango in Music's New World Zhu Jing × Shen Yuan: Behind the Scenes of a Concert, from Planning to Performance Bonus: Can Human Joy and Sorrow Be Shared? 18. The Organ's 2,300-Year Musical History A Note on Our Break and a Recommendation: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 19. France vs. Germany: Emotion and Reason, the French Revolution and German Philosophical Revolution 20. Italian vs. German Opera: Fly, Thought, on Golden Wings Preview: A Conversation with The Eight Minutes Leung Man-tao × Shen Yuan: Is Some Music Better Than Other Music? 21. Russian Music: A Nation of Antinomies and a Divided Soul 22. Proud Music from Europe's Smaller Nations: Poland, Hungary, Norway, Czechia, Spain, Finland, and Britain Vistopia New Year Concert: What Is Art? | Shen Yuan × Jiang Song 23. East Meets West: Model Peking Operas Played by Symphony Orchestra Happy New Year! May a Portsmouth Sinfonia Live in Your Heart! Liang Jie × Shen Yuan: What Is Music, and What Is a Human Being? Duan Zhiqiang × Shen Yuan: Human Culture Is a Web 24. Life's Fast-Forward Button: Is Faster Performance Always Better? 25. Bach, the Small-Town Exam Ace: How Should We View Exam-Based Social Selection? Qin Sifeng × Shen Yuan: Is It Fair to Dismiss “The Dark Plum Sauce” as Hopelessly Vulgar? 26. Zeami's Fūshikaden I: How Do We Face Life's Continual Losses? 27. Zeami's Fūshikaden II: A Strategy Book for an Artistic Life Sheng Yuan × Shen Yuan: Is a Performer a Phonograph or a Ferryman? A Note on Our Break and Recommendations: German and Austrian Organ Works Music Recommendations: French Romantic Organ Works Music Recommendations: Organ Works in Modern Music 28. Why Hear Music Live? Concert-Hall Acoustics and German-Austrian Piano Technique 29. Is a Vienna Musikverein Concert a Vanity Fair or a Grand Temple Fair? 30. Bands on the Advance! The Higher Form of Balance between Music and Words after The Big Band 31. What Are Children Really Learning When They Learn Music? Liang Qiuyang × Shen Yuan: Feeling Is the Sum of Life in Progress 32. Will Musical AI Create an Artistic Crisis? A Note on Our Break and a Recommendation: Saint François Walking on the Water 33. Can Music Heal? How Ordinary People Can Use Music for Self-Healing Closing Words: Thirty-Two Heartfelt Requests from a Musician Special Event: A Knowledge Concert Where Global Civilizations, Ideas, and Arts Meet Liang Jie × Shen Yuan: How Does the Economy Shape Music? | Music in Blossoms Shanghai Shen Yuan × Ming: Classical Music as the Best Way to Love Your Inner Life Shen Yuan × Ming: What Classical Music Would You Hear at the Peak of Desire and Longing?