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The Music of Man

Season 1 Episode 2: The Flowering of Harmony

With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blending of many voices. Palestrina and Gabrielli are but two of the early composers featured. Yehudi Menuhin traces the development of vocal music and forms of musical notation from the chants of Buddhist monks to the massed...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Quiver of Life

1. The Quiver of Life

Aired: Nov 10, 1978

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

Episode 3 New Voices for Man

3. New Voices for Man

Aired: Nov 24, 1978

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

Episode 8 Sound or Unsound

8. Sound or Unsound

Aired: Dec 29, 1978

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

Info about The Music of Man

Network: CBC Television

Production Country: Canada

Genres:Documentary, Music