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First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC HD
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. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC HD
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. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of princes and archbishops to working as freelancers. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales
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. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
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. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
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. Show more
