For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music
The epic nine part docuseries from the award winning team at The Cosmic Shambles Network. From The Big Bang to AI, this is the entire history of music as you’ve never seen it before. Presented by Charlotte Ritchie and featuring over 100 exclusive interviews, rare archive interviews and brand new live performances from incredible performers.
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For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music | Trailer 2 | Documentary | Charlotte Ritchie
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Seasons
1.Somewhere in the Silence
25-06-20261h 3mWe begin our incomplete history of music at the very beginning of everything, The Big Bang, where conditions come into being so that sound can exist in the first place. We explore...
2.Numbers Fall
26-06-20261h 9mWe explore the mathematics that underpins musical structure, how humans came to discover it and how it differs from culture to culture. We take a piano lesson and then try to make...
3.Buried Treasure
27-06-20261hWe head to deep caves in Germany to discover the oldest known musical instrument and explore the music of ancient civilisations from Babylon to Greece to Egypt. We look at how musi...
4.Build This Love
28-06-20261h 10mUsing pianos and guitars as a case study we explore the evolution of musical instruments from ancient times to modern electronic devices. We then start to explore how we send music...
5.Yesterdays
02-07-2026We examine the role of religion in music and the rise of two of the major influences of western music, opera and classical music. We look at how classical music differs from region...
6.Way Down
03-07-2026The massive global impact of African rhythms is the focus of this episode and how the barbarism of slavery, and the resilience of enslaved people, gave rise to genres such as blues...
7.Standing on the Outside
04-07-2026
8.Sing to Me
09-07-2026
9.Tomorrow
16-07-2026
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