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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.

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1: The Age of Discovery | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 58'51''

Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of instr...

2: The Age of Invention | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 58'41''

Howard Goodall looks at the fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innovations ...

3: The Age of Elegance & Sensibility | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 58'44''

Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of princes and ar...

4: The Age of Tragedy | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 59'19''

Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music that deal...

5: The Age of Rebellion | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 59'21''

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded sound c...

Beethoven's ''Eroica'' | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'37''

''Eroica'' was the first sign that Beethoven was breaking away from established musical formulas.

Claudio Monteverdi | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'56''

Claudio Monteverdi is considered a forefather in the creation of opera.

Equal Temperament | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 5'48''

Equal temperament allowed the movement of a musical phrase from one key to another or modulation.

Handel and audience | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'45''

By 1750 a new phenomenon had been introduced to music in the form of an audience. Before then, music performances would...

Handel's Oratorios | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 4'10''

Howard Goodall explains how Handel's Oratorios took influence from many arenas of music to entice and excite his audienc...

Joseph Haydn | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 2'33''

Haydn was notably supportive of his younger contemporaries, like Mozart who was a close friend and Beethoven who was a pupil.

Minimalism | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 3'00''

Influenced by African drumming and Balinese gamelan music, Steve Reich has been described as the most influential classical comp...

Mozart | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 7'04''

Howard Goodall dissects Mozart's ''Dove Sono'' and provides some historical context on some of his other works.

Symphony | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 1'56''

Joseph Haydn, the father of the symphony, taught other musicians how to take a simple tune and turn it into 30-40mins of music.

Triads | Howard Goodall's Story of Music

BBC Two | 2013 | 5'08''

Dunstable created the ever important ''third'', and we know these as major and minor ''thirds''. Howard Goodall explains all.

6: The Popular Age | Howard Goodall’s Story of Music

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