November 10, 1978
The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out animal bones. In India and China, music was a perfected...Read more
November 17, 1978
With the growth of music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance came a blending of many voices. Palestrina and Gabrielli are but ...Read more
November 24, 1978
At the height of the Renaissance in Italy Monteverdi wrote the first opera, a form of entertainment instantly popular throughout E...Read more
December 1, 1978
The works of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert established music as an accessible and popular art form in Weste...Read more
December 8, 1978
The era of Western industrialization and the Romantic movement brought with it the grand piano and the huge symphony orchestra. Ve...Read more
December 15, 1978
During the pre-World War I era the music of Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin and John Philip Sousa influenced the popular musical tast...Read more
December 22, 1978
Between the two World Wars the pace of life quickened. Jazz became enormously popular in both Europe and America. In classical mus...Read more
December 29, 1978
The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio and the television, has taken Western music beyond ear...Read more