The Music of Man(1978)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1978-11-10
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 10.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
An exploration of the world's music. Yehudi Menuhin has created this expansive survey of musical traditions from five continents. With panoramic vision and infectious enthusiasm, he takes us from primeval rhythms of Africa to the symphonies of Beethoven, from plainsong to jazz, from Swiss yodeling to Irish jig, from steel drum to electronic synthesizer. The Music of Man was a series of eight hour-long specials with host Yehudi Menuhin, following the development of music from its beginnings at the dawn of history to the electronic experiments, jazz and rock of our own time. Menuhin, the renowned violinist, conductor and humanist, participated both as violin soloist and conductor throughout the series, and was also co-writer.
Keywords
miniseriesmusic history
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 8E01
The Quiver of Life
Air Date: 1978-11-10
The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out animal bones. In India and China, music wa...
E02
The Flowering of Harmony
Air Date: 1978-11-17
With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blending of many voices. Palestrina and Gabri...
E03
New Voices for Man
Air Date: 1978-11-24
At the height of the Renaissance in Italy Monteverdi wrote the first opera, a form of entertainment instantly popular...
E04
The Age of the Composer
Air Date: 1978-12-01
The works of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert established music as an accessible and popular art ...
E05
The Age of the Individual
Air Date: 1978-12-08
The era of Western industrialization and the Romantic movement brought with it the grand piano and the huge symphony ...
E06
The Parting of the Ways
Air Date: 1978-12-15
During the pre-World War I era the music of Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa influenced the popular...
E07
The Known and the Unknown
Air Date: 1978-12-22
Between the two World Wars the pace of life quickened. Jazz became enormously popular in both Europe and America. In ...
E08
Sound or Unsound
Air Date: 1978-12-29
The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio and the television, has taken Western mus...
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