HGTCG1 Howard Goodall-20th Century Greats

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The showcard for the full series of four programs is HGTCG1-4S

 

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This series aims to show people what the constituent parts of music do: melody, harmony, rhythm—and how the pieces fit together. It’s for anyone who’s ever tried to learn their favourite song at the piano, or who’s tried to pick up the guitar or the trombone, for every kid who’s starting out with music, or the merely curious to know why one piece of music might resemble another.

 

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When people look back in 200 years time at Western culture, whose music will have survived from the 20th century? Who will be our equivalent of Bach and Beethoven, Verdi and Wagner? There are big classical names from the last 100 years, including Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Stockhausen, but, believes composer Howard Goodall, in dismantling the traditional keys and harmony, the building blocks of Western music, classical music lost touch with its audiences. "The big story of 20th century music", he says, "is the way that classical and popular music collided with each other to create a new musical mainstream. In the 1960s, with classical music at its lowest ebb, the most important composers in the world were without doubt The Beatles."

 

If you are unfamiliar with Howard Goodall, either as a composer in his own right or as a teacher of all things musical, you may want to visit his entry on Wikipedia or his official website. His about page on the UK ClassicFM website notes: "Howard is a tireless advocate for music education and in January 2007 he was appointed as the UK's first ever National Ambassador for Singing. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours list for this work." Those to whom Goodall is familiar may well been introduced to him by his series 'How Music Works': The BrainPickings.org website has a summary of that series, complete with 10 minute clips from each of the four programs. The FaberMusic.com has a portal page with sound clips and links, including a webstore link, where Goodall says:

 

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