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Music Blocks Podcast Transcripts

Colorado Public Radio · 26 episodes with transcripts

A music appreciation podcast about the building blocks that make up your favorite sounds. Music Blocks explores how songwriters and composers use sound to express their emotions and share their experiences.

Spoken has transcripts of 26 Music Blocks episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 19, 2023.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1577799535/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Strings And Things

September 19, 2023

Rebekah Romberg (0:00)

This is Music Blocks, a podcast about the building blocks that make up your favorite sounds, whatever you love to listen to. A talented musician can breathe new life into an instrument that's been around for thousands of years. A great example, Michiyo Yagi and the kodo. Musicians and composers in Japan have played…

And yet, composers have turned to this same instrument family to create light and joyful melodies for hundreds of years. Austrian composer Johann Strauss II often wrote much lighter music for chordophones. In this piece, he instructs the musicians to play the notes pizzicato. That means musicians pluck the strings…

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