The Music of Man

1. The Quiver of Life

The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out an...

2. The Flowering of Harmony

With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blend...

3. New Voices for Man

At the height of the Renaissance in Italy Monteverdi wrote the first opera, a...

4. The Age of the Composer

The works of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert established...

5. The Age of the Individual

The era of Western industrialization and the Romantic movement brought with i...

6. The Parting of the Ways

During the pre-World War I era the music of Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin and ...

7. The Known and the Unknown

Between the two World Wars the pace of life quickened. Jazz became enormously...

8. Sound or Unsound

The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio a...