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The Music of Man

Season 1 Episode 8: Sound or Unsound

The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio and the television, has taken Western music beyond early jazz into folk, rock and electronic music. Yet as old rules are questioned, man clings to the forms of music that will always remain rooted in the deepest instincts...

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