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Between the Barlines

After recently earning a Doctor of Musical Arts, Dr. Maeve Berry is passionate to help others learn and prepare for the daunting task of completing any type of music comprehensive exam about all things music! These episodes are also great for the on-the-go studier or music-curious learner and enjoyer! Join her for short, mini episodes on all topics music history and theory! Visit her website maeveberrypiano.com for more resources and other information. Posting every other weekday!

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5:42

J.S. Bach Part 2: the Vocal Works

Between the Barlines ·

2025/06/25

Welcome to Between the Barlines, I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! We are continuing today with our second episode of Bach Week! If you haven’t listened to the first episode, I highly suggest that you start there! Today, we are going to talk solely about Bach’s vocal works. I will highlight his cantatas, Passions, and Mass in B minor.Music mentioned in today's episode:BWV 82, Ich habe genug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_5DG9BD-SUBWV 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben:

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7:59

J.S. Bach Part 1: the Keyboard Works

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2025/06/23

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am super excited for this week, because we are going to talk all about Johann Sebastian Bach and all about his works! If you haven’t already, please follow and rate this podcast on whatever platform you listen on. I would also love it if you shared this podcast with another person who might love to learn more about music history! In today’s episode, we are going to talk solely about the keyboard works of Bach.Music mentioned in today's episode: Prelude and

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6:55

The Lutheran Church and Organ Music

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2025/06/18

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! We are more than halfway through season 3’s episodes! I am excited for the next few episodes because we are getting into one of our first musicians that everyone knows at least one thing about! Can you guess who that might be? I’ll let you think on that! Today’s episode will take us to German-speaking lands, where music wasn’t just a form of art—it was theology made audible. We’ll explore how Lutheran theology shaped musical

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6:29

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

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2025/06/16

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry. Today we’re shining a spotlight on a remarkable composer, virtuoso harpsichordist, and trailblazing woman in music history: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. This is the story of talent, patronage, and persistence—a woman who stood at the intersection of genius and history during one of the most lavish cultural moments in France.Pieces mentioned:Pièces de Clavecin (1687): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9kJj0DnEGwCéphale et

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11:14

Music Theory Friday: Counterpoint and Contrapuntal...

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2025/06/13

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! And welcome to our first Music Theory Friday of the season! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Get ready for today’s episode, because we are going to spend some time dissecting the forms of several different instrumental pieces that were being composed in the 17th century! We’re going to explore three major musical forms that defined Baroque instrumental music: the ricercar, the fugue, and the dance suite. We’ve heard some of these terms thrown around earlier in

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5:48

Jean Baptiste Lully: the orchestrator

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2025/06/11

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry. Today, we are going to talk about an important French composer in the mid-17th century named Jean-Baptiste Lully! We spoke briefly about him in the last episode when we discovered different new forms of instrumental music being composed in the 17th century. Let’s dive in a little deeper, and find out a little more about our friend Lully.

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8:11

Instrumental Music of the 17th Century

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2025/06/09

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! I hope you have been enjoying the third season of this podcast! I am enjoying sharing this information with you! You might be wondering why we are all over the timeline this season, but there is a method for this madness! I felt that it was important to hear about the last two composers, Henry Purcell and François Couprin, albeit they were both composers in the late 17th century. We’ve spent so much time speaking about vocal

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7:07

Henry Purcell: the theatric

Between the Barlines ·

2025/06/06

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we are going to talk about Henry Purcell, an influential composer of opera and other dramatic works in the 17th century!Music played/mentioned in this episode:Purcell "Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneas: https://youtu.be/uGQq3HcOB0Y?si=2F48AHPmQP_W4cOGPurcell Thou Knowest Lord The Secrets Of Our Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf_84OQgZSg

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5:58

Happenings in other countries in the 17th century

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2025/06/04

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I’m your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we are going to branch outside of France, Germany, and Italy and talk about trends occuring in the early 17th century in other countries! These countries include England, Spain, and Russia.

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8:18

François Couprin: the ornamenter

Between the Barlines ·

2025/06/02

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! In today’s episode, I thought it would be a good idea to talk more in depth about an extremely important composer for the keyboard: François Couprin.Music played and mentioned in today's podcast:Couprin Les Baricades Mïstérieuses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoFKG7ITRg

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6:03

Sacred Music in the early 17th Century

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2025/05/30

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry. I hope you are enjoying season 3 thus far! If this is your first dip into the Between the Barlines podcast, I suggest you go back to the very beginning so that you can continue to expand your historical music learning! Today, we are going to learn about the sacred music that was happening in the early 17th century. We are going to talk about a few composers who were monumental in creating music during this time.Music metioned in

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12:27

17th Century Chamber Music

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2025/05/28

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I’m your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and today we’re opening the doors to the intimate world of 17th-century chamber music — a time when music was migrating from grand cathedrals and courts into salons and private homes. We haven’t had a chance to explore this type of music yet, so I’m very excited to dive into this with you! In today's episode we will talk about the rise of the basso continuo, type of instruments are typically involved in these chamber ensembles,

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6:31

The Beginnings of Opera

Between the Barlines ·

2025/05/26

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are going back over 400 years to explore the birth of opera—how it came to be, what it meant in its early days, and how it evolved from a humanist experiment in Florence to one of the most enduring and powerful forms of storytelling in the Western world. If you aren’t familiar with the genre, you might be asking, what exactly is opera?

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8:07

From stile antico to stile moderno

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2025/05/23

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and for the second episode of season 3, we are going to talk about stile antico and stile moderno—the “old style” and the “modern style”—and the dramatic shift between them during one of the most transformative periods in music history.Music in this Episode:Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKTQQ28sSNo&feature=youtu.be

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7:42

Traits of Baroque Era Music

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2025/05/21

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and I am thrilled that you are joining me for the first episode of season 3! If you haven’t listened to either seasons 1 or 2, please go back and give those a listen! The goal of this podcast is to provide learners and music-curious people with aural resources to study, learn, and review topics chronologically from music history! In this episode, we’ll explore all of the defining traits of Baroque music—from its dramatic

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5:02

Welcome to the 17th Century: new styles and a...

Between the Barlines ·

2025/05/02

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I’m your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and today is our final episode of season 2! The 17th century was a time of dramatic change and innovation in music. It was a bridge between the Renaissance and the Baroque, a century of experimentation, emotion, and new forms that would shape the sound of Western music for centuries to come.

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8:11

Tying up loose ends in the Renaissance

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2025/04/30

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we are going to tie up some loose ends that we still have in the Renaissance! We are going to address composers like Thomas Tallis and Tomás Luis de Victoria, as well as the instrument called the virginal.Pieces mentioned/played in episode:Tallis Spem in alium a 40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3LnkG2P2wMTallis Te lucis ante terminum (Festal Tone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75c3aIg3nIVictoria O magnum mysterium:

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8:12

Instrumental Music in the 16th century

Between the Barlines ·

2025/04/25

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I’m your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and today we’re diving into an often overlooked but deeply fascinating era in Western music history: the 16th century — a time when instrumental music began to step into its own spotlight. While vocal music still dominated, and composers like Palestrina and Josquin des Prez were household names in their time, the 16th century was a turning point for purely instrumental composition and performance. So today, we’ll explore the

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7:25

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: the mediator

Between the Barlines ·

2025/04/23

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry, and I am thrilled that you are joining me for another episode in season 2! Today we are going to talk all about Palestrina, an extremely influential composer of choral music in the mid to late 16th century. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born around 1525, in a small hill town just outside of Rome. Snippet of Music played in episode:Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli (full): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfF7W4El60

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7:47

The Council of Trent

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2025/04/21

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I’m your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we’re talking about one of the most consequential religious gatherings in world history: The Council of Trent. It’s a response to the firestorm of the Protestant Reformation and a defining moment for the Catholic Church that still echoes through its walls today. A lot of today’s episode will focus on the changes that were occurring, and I will also rope music back into the picture later in the episode.

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