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Howard Goodall's Story of Music

9.0 / 10 · 3 votes

2013

1 season

6 episodes

Documentary

Shown as six one-hour programmes on BBC2, "Story of Music" presents Howard’s personal view of the musical timeline from the stone age to the digital age, including the influence of classical music on the growth of popular music as well as the evolution of blues, jazz and world music.

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Ep 1
1.The Age of Discovery
26-01-2013
In this episode, Goodall charts the development of the oldest intact form of music, the 'Gregorian' chant. He reveals how medieval musicians built up the basic elements of music un...
Ep 2
2.The Age of Invention
02-02-2013
Howard Goodall looks at the extraordinarily fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innovations we take for granted today were invented. The orch...
Ep 3
3.The Age of Elegance & Sensibility
10-02-2013
The composer examines the age of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. This period from 1750 to 1850 saw composers going from being paid, liveried s...
Ep 4
4.The Age of Tragedy
16-02-2013
In the fourth part, composer Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music that dealt with death and destiny swept Eur...
Ep 5
5.The Age of Rebellion
23-02-2013
In the fifth episode, composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded sound changed the way music was heard, played, and...
Ep 6
6.The Popular Age
02-03-2013
In the sixth and final episode, composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music.

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