Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
TODAY'S PIECES:
“Scherzo e Valsa” by Samuel Couto: 0:00
“Opus 1” by Emre Harwala: 17:25
Piano Sonata "The Elements" by Garret Kaplan: 57:43
TODAY'S PIECES:
“Scherzo e Valsa” by Samuel Couto: 0:00
“Opus 1” by Emre Harwala: 17:25
Piano Sonata "The Elements" by Garret Kaplan: 57:43
![Rare Woodwinds and Unique Instruments of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]
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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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- Thomas Little: “C’est la Vie” from the Sonata for Violin and Piano (2018), performed by Michele Zimmerman and George Mobley and available for purchase on Bandcamp: https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com/album/sonata-for-violin-and-piano
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, arranged for harpsichord and performed on the fly by Thomas Little
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![The Enigmatic Edward Elgar
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0:00 Introduction
1:51 I: Autodidact
7:08 II: Forming the Elgar Sound
20:02 III: Elgar’s Musical Language
29:21 IV: Enigma & Gerontius
44:48 V: Fifteen Minutes of Fame
58:25 VI: A Divergent Mind
1:01:38 VII: The Great War
1:08:34 VIII: Recording Pioneer
1:11:15 IX: Elgar and the Academy
1:15:26 X: The Elgar Legacy
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Edward Elgar: A Creative Life” by Jerrold Northrop Moore (Oxford University Press, 1984)
“Elgar: The Music Maker” by Diana McVeagh (Boydell Press, 2007)
“Elgar Studies,” ed. Raymond Monk, with contributions by Robert Anderson, Peter Dennison, Michael Kennedy, John Knowles, Diana McVeagh, Jerrold Northrop Moore, Ian Parrott, Michael Pope, K.E.L. Simmons, Ronald Taylor, and Percy M. Young (Scolar Press, 1990)
“A Future for English Music, and Other Lectures” by Edward Elgar, ed. Percy M. Young (Dobson Books, 1968)
“Edward Elgar and the Nostalgic Imagination” by Matthew Riley (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
“Solving Elgar’s Enigma” by Charles Richard Santa and Matthew Santa (Current Musicology, No. 89, Spring 2010, pp. 75–89)
25:16 The tweet cited may be found at https://twitter.com/jeremylimb/status/1642480712996495361
Music:
- Elgar: Imperial March, Op.32 (1897), arranged for piano by Elgar and performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/ElgarImpMarch
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zps7sQZecQY
- Elgar: Sonatina (1889/31), performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/ElgarSonatina
- Elgar: Skizze (1901), performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/ElgarSkizze
- Elgar: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op.20 (1888–92), performed by A Far Cry and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/ElgarSerenade
- Elgar: “Froissart” Overture, Op.19 (1890), performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig conducted by Gerhard Pflüger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggu1nQ7y0Ps
- Elgar: Organ Sonata in G Major, Op.28 (1895), performed by Herbert Sumsion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xesbVpkUQ
- Elgar: Piano Quintet, Op.84 (1918–9), performed by John Ogdon and the Allegri Quartet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mESD4MOPuHw
- Elgar: There is Sweet Music, Op.53 No.1 (1907), performed by the Kammerchor Consono conducted by Harald Jers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_UnMrzDsCY
- Variations on an Original Theme “Enigma”, Op.36 (1899), performed by the DuPage Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/ElgarEnigma
- Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38 (1900), performed by Alice Coote, Paul Groves, Matthew Best, the Halle, London Philharmonic, and Halle Youth Choirs and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwmVypRY-g
- Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Op.39 No.1 (1901), performed by the Wind Symphony Orchestra of the Bartók Conservatory Budapest conducted by Zoltán Kiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMujFtU8ySI
- Elgar: Symphony No. 1, Op.55 (1907–8), performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuSuwDXxUA
- Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op.85 (1918–9), performed by Leonard Elschenbroich and the Bergen Philharmonic conducted by Edward Gardner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6fEXtCTOzo
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![Writing for Eighth Blackbird: Episode 1
The beginning of a journey.
Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Trying Jenny Lind Soup
🍲 RECIPE:
Make about three quarts of stock, which strain through a fine sieve into a middle-size stewpan; set it to boil; add to it three ounces of sago; boil gently twenty minutes; skim; just previous to serving break four fresh eggs, and place the yolk, entirely free from the white, into a basin, beat them well with a spoon; add to it a gill of cream; take the pan from the fire, pour in the yolks, stir quickly for one minute, serve immediately; do not let it boil, or it will curdle, and would not be fit to be partaken of. The stock being previously seasoned, it only requires the addition of half a teaspoonful of sugar, a little more salt, pepper, nutmeg; also thyme, parsley, and bay-leaf will agreeably vary the flavor without interfering with the quality.
🍲 MY VERSION:
Add one ounce of starch to one quart of stock and boil for 20 minutes. Beat an egg yolk with 45mL of white liquid dairy product of your choosing, then mix this with the stock for one minute without letting it boil. Season to taste, then reflect on what youve done.
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Music:
- Thomas Little: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Mvt. 3 Cest la Vie, performed by Michele Zimmerman and George Mobley and available at https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com/album/sonata-for-violin-and-piano
- Merv Griffin: Think!, arranged and performed by Thomas Little
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![What is Sign Language Music? [with Dr. Anabel Maler]
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(Patrons have access to the uncut and unedited interview, which is about twenty minutes longer and covers a somewhat wider variety of subjects.)
0:00 Types of sign language music
2:51 How Dr. Maler found this academic niche
7:00 Deaf education; oralism’s repercussions
10:40 How can hearing folks respectfully engage with signed music?
14:41 Is there a sign language music “common practice?”
18:13 Use of three dimensions of space
19:14 “Dip-hop” and its appeal
22:11 Rhymes in sign language
23:58 Where there’s no sound at all, how is signed music still music?
29:09 More about percussion songs
30:58 How signed music has affected Dr. Maler’s other musical experiences
📚 Sources/further reading:
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music by Anabel Maler (Oxford, 2024)
https://time.com/5655889/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amber-galloway-gallego/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wdv88jNKAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVbUfuqXuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUup3Qzvpr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTlI2l0T_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRtDjTQHG-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brfnC9NQbgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKk7bNkNraw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChbNS4zhnyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3kflAc2KCE
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![Great Composers: Otar Taktakishvili
A look at a significant Georgian.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Otar Taktakishvili: Poem, performed by Luka Okrostsvaridze [original upload: bclgYBvtPI4]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Silvestre Revueltas and his Revolutionary Music
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📚 Sources/further reading:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8194/f31fbbd739ff0ad85126a0fe664e8feb681d.pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4440/987ea25d7113294b676502f87c6b82815e4f.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284189469_Negotiating_History_Nation_and_the_Canon_The_String_Quartets_of_Silvestre_Revueltas
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=5011&context=gradschool_dissertations
https://www.ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/printpdf/journal/volume/19/piece/800
https://www.associazionerevueltas.it/en/revueltas.html
https://www.puertovallarta.net/fast_facts/silvestre-revueltas
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Silvestre Revueltas: Redes, performed by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manuel Hernández Silva [original upload: 6bgjoc3ETEs]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá, performed by the New Philarmonia Orchestra conducted by Eduardo Mata [original upload: WjfE2pUPKrU]
- Silvestre Revueltas: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, performed by the Nationaal Jeugd Orkest conducted by Etienne Siebens [original upload: DsnJF2gpBgM]
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![Advice for Beginning Composers
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Answering a pertinent question.
Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: “C’est la Vie” from the Sonata for Violin and Piano, performed by Michele Zimmerman and George Mobley and available for purchase on Bandcamp: https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com/album/sonata-for-violin-and-piano
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Great Composers: Hermann Necke
A look at a super-obscure fellow.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Hermann Necke and YouTuber hosnm4536: Transcendental “Csikós Post,” synthesized performance [original upload: nphL9KOUPsc]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![A Visit to the National Music Museum
Road trip!
Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Teton Pass (from Symphony No. 1 “The Grand Tetons”), performed by the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher James Lees [original upload: GIZQog6ElR4]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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