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In this third episode, Laura Barton explores music's idea of the West, from the strings, sustained harmonies and open fifths of Western film scores, to the percussion, nasal pitch and perfect fourths favoured by indigenous Plains Indians, and how they connect or confront ideas of frontier thesis, manifest destiny, and the relationship with the land itself.

With contributions from Samantha Crain, a Choctaw songwriter from Oklahoma; Bryce Dessner, guitarist with The National and provider of music for the 'early western' film The Revenant; and Professor Philip Deloria, a specialist in Native American, Western American and environmental history.

Music:
Aaron Copland - Barley Wagons (Music for Movies)
Burl Ives - Wayfaring Stranger
Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
Samantha Crain - Elk City
The National - Not in Kansas
Aaron Copland - Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)
Aaron Copland - A Gift To Be Simple (Appalachian Spring)
Alfred Newman - How the West Was Won
Arthur Farwell - Navajo War Dance
Samantha Crain - Red Sky, Blue Mountain (acoustic)
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Navajo Horse Riding Song
The Flute Clan - Desert Shadows
Paul Revere and the Raiders - Indian Reservation
Bryce Dessner - Imagining Buffalos (The Revenant)
Samantha Crain - Red Sky, Blue Mountain
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
Samantha Crain - If I Had a Dollar

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4