Howard Goodall has several series of documentairies about the history of music that are worth watching now and then if interested in this history of music ofcourse.
Bernstein: The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein’s duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of […]
Karlheinz Stockhausen – The British Lectures
Karlheinz Stockhausen – The British Lectures Where did modern electronic music come from? Whatever the genre markers—EDM, house, glitch, dubstep, ambient—any discussion of the history will inevitably pay homage to a few founding names: […]
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: “Nobody has ever made head or tail […]
Ancient Greek Music
The music of ancient Greece was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus played an integral […]
The oldest song of all time
The Hurrian Hymn is History’s first Song. Well, the oldest known song. If we’re really splitting hairs: the earliest written song that can be reconstructed. We’re not even sure what the song even sounds like, […]
10th Century: Notker the Stammerer
Notker the Stammerer, also known as Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, now in Switzerland, where he was a leading literary scholar of the Early Middle […]
1938 Shostakovich – The Second Waltz
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 […]
1600 Euridice
The year 16oo is a traditional milestone in the history of Western music. As will be shown later, the quarrels over the respective merits of ancient and modern music were then at their height. It […]
