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The Music of Man

Season 1 Episode 6: The Parting of the Ways

During the pre-World War I era the music of Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa influenced the popular musical tastes of America. Abroad Debussy, Strauss and Mahler filled concert halls, while Igor Stravinsky advanced the revolution with The Rite of Spring. With the dawn of the 20t...

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