The Age of Discovery
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2013
Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of instrumental and folk music between 1000 and 1600.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2013
Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of instrumental and folk music between 1000 and 1600.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2013
Howard Goodall looks at the fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innovations we take for granted today were invented.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2013
Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of princes and archbishops to working as freelancers.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2013
Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music that dealt with death and destiny swept Europe.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2013
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded sound changed the way music was heard forever.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2013
Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music seemed to many to be in retreat.