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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Now Hear This Season 3 Episode 3 - Dean of American Music
    9.8/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Dean of American Music

    S3:E3

    Scott spends a month each year teaching students, just as Aaron Copland did during his career. Together they’ll play Copland’s music to learn how he drew from his roots and American folk songs to invent the American sound.

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  2. Now Hear This Season 1 Episode 1 - Something Completely Different
    8.9/10(26 votes)

    #2 - Something Completely Different

    S1:E1

    Scott Yoo investigates the story behind Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – and discovers a new Vivaldi work, his connection to Stradivarius, a treasure trove of original manuscripts, and that Vivaldi himself was almost lost to history.

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  3. Now Hear This Season 1 Episode 2 - The Riddle of Bach
    8.9/10(23 votes)

    #3 - The Riddle of Bach

    S1:E2

    In Germany, Scott discovers a riddle that Bach left in his only official portrait. In trying to solve it, he and his wife Alice Dade, also a star musician, discover Bach’s true personality and his surprising influences, leading them to a spectuacular finale in Paris.

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  4. Now Hear This Season 1 Episode 3 - Man Out of Time
    8.9/10(22 votes)

    #4 - Man Out of Time

    S1:E3

    Scott goes on the trail of Domenico Scarlatti, the most influential composer you’ve never heard of. From Italian, Spanish, Moorish, Jewish, Gypsy, dance and guitaristic roots, Scarlatti created a new musical language, more relevant today than in his own time.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Now Hear This Season 2 Episode 4 - Beethoven's Ghost
    8.7/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Beethoven's Ghost

    S2:E4

    Scott makes a landmark recording, centered around Beethoven's famous Ghost Trio. This summons the ghost of Beethoven, trailed by Sigmund Freud who’s intent on analyzing him, in this eccentric mix of documentary and ghost story.

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  6. Now Hear This Season 3 Episode 2 - Florence Price and the American Migration
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Florence Price and the American Migration

    S3:E2

    Scott explores the newly rediscovered music of Florence Price, to understand how African-American spirituals — a mixture of West African songs and European hymns — influenced her work and nearly all of American popular music.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Now Hear This Season 1 Episode 4 - Italian Style
    8.6/10(18 votes)

    #7 - Italian Style

    S1:E4

    Before becoming London’s most famous composer, Handel did his ‘graduate school’ in Italy. Scott traces his footsteps and his inspirations – not just music, but art, architecture, fashion, food and wine – to understand how Italy shaped this German composer for the rest of his life.

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  8. Now Hear This Season 2 Episode 3 - Becoming Mozart
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Becoming Mozart

    S2:E3

    Scott teaches pianist Stewart Goodyear to conduct, so he can lead the orchestra through Mozart’s titanic 20th piano concerto — while improvising the solos — just as Mozart would have done.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Now Hear This Season 2 Episode 1 - The King of Strings
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #9 - The King of Strings

    S2:E1

    Scott discovers how Joseph Hadyn combined folk music from across Europe with his own unique style and belief system to create the string quartet, influencing all composers after him.

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  10. Now Hear This Season 2 Episode 2 - The Schubert Generation
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #10 - The Schubert Generation

    S2:E2

    Scott meets some of today’s leading young musicians, none older than Franz Schubert during his career, to gain a deeper appreciation for the composer’s brilliant work and tragically short life.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Now Hear This Season 4 Episode 2 - Genius and Madness
    8.1/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Genius and Madness

    S4:E2

    Scott goes to Scotland, Germany and France, with leading musicians, psychiatrists and scholars, to try to understand the connection between mental health and creativity in the work of Robert Schumann and other great artists. Featuring the great cellist Bion Tsang.

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  12. Now Hear This Season 3 Episode 1 - Amy Beach, American Romantic
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Amy Beach, American Romantic

    S3:E1

    At his music festival, Scott plays America’s greatest Romantic composer, Amy Beach. In New England, he explores her roots and career. At a time when society looked down on women composers, Beach worked to invent a new American music.

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  13. Now Hear This Season 3 Episode 4 - New American Voices
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - New American Voices

    S3:E4

    Scott meets and plays with modern masters: Sergio Assad shows him how Brazilian music inspires his work, now staples of the classical canon. Reena Esmail draws from traditional Indian rhythms and scales to create her signature sound.

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  14. Now Hear This Season 4 Episode 1 - Piazzolla’s History with Tango
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Piazzolla’s History with Tango

    S4:E1

    Scott and Alice travel to Buenos Aires to discover the music of Astor Piazzolla, who fell in love with tango. Then fell out of love. Then tango fell out of love with him. Scott and Alice play with Argentina’s greatest musicians and dancers, to find out if Piazzolla and tango could reconcile.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Now Hear This Season 5 Episode 1 - Rising Stars
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Rising Stars

    S5:E1

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  16. Now Hear This Season 5 Episode 2 - Virtuosos
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Virtuosos

    S5:E2

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  17. Now Hear This Season 5 Episode 3 - Old Friends
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Old Friends

    S5:E3

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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Now Hear This Season 5 Episode 4 - The Composer Is Yoo
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Composer Is Yoo

    S5:E4

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Now Hear This Season 6 Episode 1 - Chopin’s Polish Heart
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Chopin’s Polish Heart

    S6:E1

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  20. Now Hear This Season 6 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Episode 2

    S6:E2

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    Director:Unknown
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  21. Now Hear This Season 6 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Episode 3

    S6:E3

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  22. Now Hear This Season 6 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Episode 4

    S6:E4

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dean of American Music" is the best rated episode of "Now Hear This". It scored 9.8/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/29/2022. This episode scored 0.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "Something Completely Different".