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Is This Music?

Season 1 Episode 103 | 26m 46s

Excerpts from the Gregorian Chant Victimae Paschali Laudes; the Medieval Song Quan vei la lauzeta mover; Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Mozart's String Quartet, K. 387; Rachmaninoff's Symphony No.2; Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and Desmond's Take Five, are used to encourage speculation about what can be considered to actually be music... or not.

Aired: 04/10/22 | Expires: 07/15/22
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
Listening versus hearing and the process of noticing detail in music.
The audience is encouraged to grasp larger chunks or "paragraphs" of musical information.
Concepts presented in the previous six episodes are revisited in this "new" context.
Maestro George Marriner Maull reviews musical elements covered in previous episodes.
What factors predispose people not to listen? With an opportunity for guided listening.
What happens to us, psychologically-emotionally, when we listen to classical music?
Elements or basic ingredients of music are defined.
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Listening versus hearing and the process of noticing detail in music.
The audience is encouraged to grasp larger chunks or "paragraphs" of musical information.
Concepts presented in the previous six episodes are revisited in this "new" context.
Maestro George Marriner Maull reviews musical elements covered in previous episodes.
What factors predispose people not to listen? With an opportunity for guided listening.
What happens to us, psychologically-emotionally, when we listen to classical music?
Elements or basic ingredients of music are defined.