Sinopsis
Join VPR Classical host James Stewart on a journey into the events, characters and concepts that shaped our Western musical tradition. We'll start at the very beginning and trace the steps of music through history. This music, and its history, is ours.
Episodios
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The Beginning Of Notation
11/05/2015 Duración: 03minAncient Music, 800-900 AD: It's easy to take for granted this ability to take a piece of music and understand it instantly, but this wasn't always the case. Let's explore the birth of modern musical notation and the history of this elegant practice.
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![Pythagoras And The Connection Between Music And Math]()
Pythagoras And The Connection Between Music And Math
04/05/2015 Duración: 03minAncient Music, 570-495 BCE: There is a long history of connection between the world of music and the world of mathematics.
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Ancient Musical Notation
27/04/2015 Duración: 02minAncient Music, 1400-200 BCE: The art of writing down melodies, preserving sound in time, was not something that was first invented just 1,000 years ago. Humans have made music for most of our history, let's explore some of the earliest examples of musical notation. The first comes to us from a culture that’s nearly 3,400 years old.
