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1. Country Songwriting
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From the lonesome lakes of Wisconsin to California's fields and orchards, JJ Schultz has been traveling and writing country-folk ballads. As we hear here, one of the main tensions in classic country songwriting is the balance between sweet, major-key melodies and melancholy words. It's a
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public date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:34:37 -0800 - (17 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. IDM and Glitch
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When he's not analyzing industrial and metal albums for the Music Genome Project, Will Redmond is often out on tour as BlipVert, performing his twisted and hyper-intense take on IDM. This is electronic music at its most challenging, where samples and microsamples are arranged like chips i
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public date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:33:49 -0800 - (9 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. Gypsy Jazz
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If you are familiar with the films of Woody Allen, you've heard examples of gypsy jazz, a French variant on American jazz begun by Django Reinhardt and others in the 1930s. Pandora engineer and lead guitarist Vic Wong brings in other hot club players to demonstrate how gypsy jazz is playe
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public date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:24:52 -0800 - (11 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. Dissonance
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Classical music enthusiasts, this one's for you. Pandora classical music analyst Russell Johnson drops by to investigate the onward march toward atonality throughout the history of Western art music. From Renaissance times through Classical and Romantic periods onto Stravinsky and Schoen
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public date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:03:16 -0800 - (9 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. Drum Feels (With Hi-Hat and Snare)
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Tiny changes in a drummer's playing can create dramatic shifts in a song's feel. Pandora dance music analyst and session drummer Jeff Anthony gets into his trick bag to show some of the little variations he throws in to boost a song's energy going into the chorus. He also breaks down the
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public date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:33:13 -0800 - (8 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. Melodic Construction: Pitch and Contour
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Melody is so central to much of the music we love. This week, singer and composer Melody Parker stops by to describe how pitches can be strung together to form a melody, and the ways in which a melody can quickly burst out, slowly develop, or gradually expand over the course of a whole sec
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public date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:41:04 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. Types of Metal
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WARNING: this episode is not for the faint of heart. We tear into the gristle, meat and grisly bones of Metal on this one. Our guests are guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Kurt Kotheimer and drummer Weasel Walter, and they show us the musical components of various metal genres: grindcore,
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public date: Wed, 28 May 2008 00:01:36 -0800 - (12 MB Type: MPEG)
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8. Drum Feels (With Toms and Kick)
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When it comes to arranging a song, the drum parts selected for verses, choruses and bridges are crucial. Session drummer and Pandora music analyst Jeff Anthony shows us ways that he uses his toms and kick drum to create these variations. Among the styles he gets into: a kick-heavy sixte
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public date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:25:28 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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9. Metric Modulation
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Don't let the technical name throw you off -- metric modulation is something you will be able to hear very clearly. Pandora dance music captain Chris Horgan from Beatropolis comes by to show how tempos (tempi) can change on a dime, with the use of subdivided beats. Speeding up and slowin
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public date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:36:48 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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10. Building A Song From The Ground Up
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It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. If that is true, then let's look at the recording studio as if it's an architect's drafting table. Pandora music analyst Scott Pinkmountain pulls apart a song brick by brick, and we hear the thought processes tha
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public date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:36:45 -0800 - (14 MB Type: MPEG)
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11. Strings
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Johnny, rosin up your bow. Guest host Samantha Grant welcomes Pandora music analysts Alan L. Lin and Yair Evnine. Alan, a violinist, and Yair, a cellist, give us a primer on string theory as it relates to legato and staccato, arco and pizzicato, and other aspects of bowing and plucking i
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public date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:04:12 -0800 - (11 MB Type: MPEG)
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12. Index of Musical Terms
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We had a recent listener request for an index of terms. As the old saying goes, your wish is our command: Here it is. It's an alphabetized index, built to let you scroll through and select episodes based on the musical concepts addressed. This is an ever-evolving site, so please remember that
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public date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:47:27 -0800
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13. The Trumpet
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Time to warm up your mouthpieces, empty your spit valves, and get your brass on. Composer and Pandora music analyst Gene V. Baker shows the ranges, tones and techniques of trumpet and cornet. We look at how partials allow multiple notes to come from the same finger position, and show way
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public date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:14:16 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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14. Our New Season Begins Wednesday, March 5th
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I am pleased to announce that the new season of "Pandora Presents..." begins on Wednesday, the 5th of March. In the meantime, we really need to build up our subscriber numbers. These are FREE subscriptions, and will continue to be free, but our sponsors need to see that there is interest in these
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public date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:23:27 -0800
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15. The Blues Scale
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Modern American popular music all traces back to the blues in one way or another. Guitarist and Pandora senior music analyst Bob Coons swings by the studio to talk about the blues scale, a six-note (heptonic) sequence of tones that appears in countless tracks. It's a scale that changes th
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public date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:58:16 -0800 - (8 MB Type: MPEG)
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16. 2008 Topics for the Musicology Show
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We are gearing up for a new season of the Musicology Show. Thanks again for subscribing and supporting the show. Each fortnight in 2008, host Kevin Seal will welcome a new guest and tackle a different aspect of music production and composition. New shows will continue to pop up every other Wedn
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public date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:15:32 -0800
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17. Holiday Music
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'Tis the season: snow, jingling bells in swing time, and choirs aplenty. Acoustic guitarist and Pandora music analyst Todd Haemmerle comes in to talk about holiday music with host Kevin Seal. They look at the swing origin of much modern Christmas music, talk about minor and major tonalit
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public date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:02:01 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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18. Word Choice In Lyrics
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Why do those specific words in the song move you so much? What is it about that turn of phrase or that one vivid image that speaks directly to you? Pandora music curator Michael Zapruder and host Kevin Seal talk about touch, smell, and taste imagery in songs -- there's more out there than ju
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public date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:42:39 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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19. Singing Intervals
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More about singing! Picture this: you're sitting on a plane, and a melody pops into your head. You want to remember this melody, but you have no instrument on which to pluck out the pitches. Your piano, unfortunately, exceeded the size limitations for carry-on luggage. What do you do?
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public date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:26:53 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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20. Electronic Dance Music, Part II
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Pandora's Dance Music Genome teacher Chris Horgan continues his talk about electronica with host Kevin Seal. (If you haven't heard Part I of this show, you should start there.) This time, the DJs are spinning Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, and Downtempo. Chris and Kevin count out the tempos and
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public date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:02:11 -0800 - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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