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Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs 
Our Price: £16.86
Format: DVD - NTSC
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Documentary
Artist(s): Howard Goodall
Release Date: 26th July 2009
More Details on Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs
Five momentous discoveries that changed the course of western music.
“In this series I’m going to look at five of the great breakthroughs that European music has experienced in its extraordinary history – five momentous discoveries. I also want to show what they mean to us today, at a time when so-called classical music is being absorbed into a much bigger mainstream and when its 1,000-year reign seems to be coming to a close” - Howard Goodall
With intriguing anecdotes and witty humour, award-winning composer Howard Goodall presents five innovations in European musical history, which have overwhelmingly changed its course:
• Notation: the journey from plain chant in medieval times to symphonic works and improvisation
• Equal Temperament (a universal tuning, scale and key system): from the discoveries of Pythagoras to JS Bach
• Opera: where music interfaces with real life – with love, death and politics
• Piano: this versatile instrument is unique to European culture
• Recorded Sound: from Caruso to world music and sampling
“This is the very best thing on television. It is utterly brilliant” - Sunday Times
'Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs' is written and presented by Howard Goodall and was first seen on Channel 4 in 1999.
Featuring:
- Courtney Pine
- John Mark Ainsley
- Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
- Salisbury Cathedral Choir
- Students of London College of Music
- Pupils of Marlborough College
- Julian Light Operatic Society
- Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
Approx Duration: Disc 1: 151’ / Disc 2: 101’ = 252 mins
Picture format: NTSC 4:3 LBX
Colour
Region Code: 2,3,4,5
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
“In this series I’m going to look at five of the great breakthroughs that European music has experienced in its extraordinary history – five momentous discoveries. I also want to show what they mean to us today, at a time when so-called classical music is being absorbed into a much bigger mainstream and when its 1,000-year reign seems to be coming to a close” - Howard Goodall
With intriguing anecdotes and witty humour, award-winning composer Howard Goodall presents five innovations in European musical history, which have overwhelmingly changed its course:
• Notation: the journey from plain chant in medieval times to symphonic works and improvisation
• Equal Temperament (a universal tuning, scale and key system): from the discoveries of Pythagoras to JS Bach
• Opera: where music interfaces with real life – with love, death and politics
• Piano: this versatile instrument is unique to European culture
• Recorded Sound: from Caruso to world music and sampling
“This is the very best thing on television. It is utterly brilliant” - Sunday Times
'Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs' is written and presented by Howard Goodall and was first seen on Channel 4 in 1999.
Featuring:
- Courtney Pine
- John Mark Ainsley
- Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
- Salisbury Cathedral Choir
- Students of London College of Music
- Pupils of Marlborough College
- Julian Light Operatic Society
- Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
Approx Duration: Disc 1: 151’ / Disc 2: 101’ = 252 mins
Picture format: NTSC 4:3 LBX
Colour
Region Code: 2,3,4,5
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: None
