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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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6:31

Eastern European Modernism

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/28

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! We have only two more short episodes talking about modernism; today we will speak about Eastern European Modernism, and next time we will talk about modernism happening in Britain. We have two very important composers to chat about today: Leoš Janáček and Jean Sibelius.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

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6:32

American Moderism

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/26

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I hope you are enjoying season 6 so far! If I haven’t mentioned this before, the 20th century is going to split into 2 seasons; it is way too dense to just have 20 episodes and stop talking about it. Today, we are going to talk about modernism in the US and also address the nationalist movement that it brought. Today’s episode is going to be a little bit shorter because we’ve also chatted about some of these composers and features in our very first modernism

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7:33

Spanish Nationalism

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/23

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we are exploring Spanish nationalism - which was essentially their modernism movement. In the early 20th century, Spain was creating its own modern musical identity. Spanish modernism is tradition meeting innovation: think of ancient folk sounds colliding with impressionism, neoclassicism, and the avant-garde. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

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8:08

French Modernists: Debussy and Ravel

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2026/01/21

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we’ll explore what French modernism is, why it emerged, and how Debussy and Ravel each forged unique yet complementary paths into modern music.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

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9:19

Richard Strauss: a bridge between two centuries

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2026/01/19

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! Today, we’re diving into the bold and sometimes controversial world of Richard Strauss. He was a composer who pushed late Romantic music to its expressive limits while standing on the threshold of modernism. Strauss was a master of orchestral color, psychological drama, and sonic spectacle, and his music spans three major genres: tone poems, opera, and art song. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

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10:09

Gustav Mahler: the symphonist

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2026/01/16

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today, we talking about one of the most memorable composers in history: Gustav Mahler. Check out below for links to the music I mentioned in today's podcast! Most of these recordings are conducted by Leonard Bernstein.Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this podcast:Des Knaben Wunderhorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXVDmBmk1ssSymphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi6ZjkXFlcUSymphony No. 3:

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10:29

Jazz: the true American Sound

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/12

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I have a very fun episode planned for us today where we will take a hiatus from talking about strict classical music and explore the formation of jazz. Buy me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/betweenthebarlines

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9:37

What is Modernism?

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/09

Welcome to Between the Barlines! We learned in our first episode a little about modernism, but to refresh your memory about this term, MODERNISM in music is less a style than a mindset. Composers questioned traditionalism in tonality, form, rhythm, and timbre. Romantic emotional excess gave way to experimentation and abstraction. Key modernist traits include:Fragmented melodies and asymmetrical formsNew harmonic languages, including atonality and polytonalityEmphasis on rhythm, percussion, and

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10:35

Vernacular Music: what is meant by this?

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/07

Welcome Back to Between the Barlines! I am excited to talk about today’s episode topic because I feel like it is especially pertinent to the music being created in the USA during this part of the century. As we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USA this year, I want to draw your attention to something I mentioned last season; that is, if you think about it, our country was really shaped by foreigners in many senses of the word “shape.” It wasn’t until about the 20th century where America

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8:03

Welcome to the 20th Century!

Between the Barlines ·

2026/01/05

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Happy New Year! This season, we are exploring the 20th century up until 1950. Today, we will talk about Modernism and technology's impact on music during the 20th century.

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8:13

The transition into a new century

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/24

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:

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13:25

Nationalism in late 19th century American Music

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/21

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

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9:57

The "English Musical Rensaissance"

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2025/11/20

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

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9:59

The Mighty Five

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/19

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:

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10:45

Hybrid Styles in the late 19th Century

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/18

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:

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9:46

Late 19th century Germanicism

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/17

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/betweenthebarlinesMusic mentioned in this episode:Brahms Symphonies 1-4Brahms Violin ConcertoBrahms Ein Deutsches RequiemBrahms Violin Sonatas 1-3Brahms Clarinet

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8:51

Late 19th Century Opera

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/10

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

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9:35

Giacomo Puccini and the verismo style

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/07

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

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10:36

Giuseppe Verdi - my "Mean Joe Green"

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/05

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:

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12:23

Richard Wagner and Gesamtkunstwerk

Between the Barlines ·

2025/11/03

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/betweenthebarlinesOperas mentioned in this episode:The

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