BBC - Story of Music Learning Zone (2013) Part 1

A special reversion of Howard Goodall's Story of Music that provides a unique resource for schools. The series traces the story of music from 32,000 BC to present day.

Part 1: 10th to 18th Century Howard Goodall looks back at the very first faltering steps humankind took towards making music. In The Age of Discovery, Goodall charts the development of many of the techniques musicians now take for granted. In The Age of Invention, Goodall looks at the extraordinarily fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750. In an age when Newton put in place the basic laws of science, musicians did the same thing in music. In The Age of Elegance and Sensibility, Goodall explores an era - from 1750 to 1850 - in which the composers went from being the paid, liveried servants of princes and archbishops to working freelance.

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