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...
Aired: Nov 10, 1978The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out an...
Aired: Nov 17, 1978With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blend...
Aired: Nov 24, 1978At the height of the Renaissance in Italy Monteverdi wrote the first opera, a...
Aired: Dec 1, 1978The works of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert established...
Aired: Dec 8, 1978The era of Western industrialization and the Romantic movement brought with i...
Aired: Dec 15, 1978During the pre-World War I era the music of Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin and ...
Aired: Dec 22, 1978Between the two World Wars the pace of life quickened. Jazz became enormously...
Aired: Dec 29, 1978The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio a...
Appearances
Network: CBC Television
Production Country: Canada
Genres:Documentary, Music
