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The Music of Man

Season 1 Episode 5: The Age of the Individual

Dec 08, 1978NR1h 00m8.4

The era of Western industrialization and the Romantic movement brought with it the grand piano and the huge symphony orchestra. Verdi, Brahms, Wagner and Tchaikovsky each put their unique stamp on Western music. National Ballet of Canada stars Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn dance the Swan Lake pas de deux to Tchaikovsky's music played by violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Quiver of Life

1. The Quiver of Life

Aired: Nov 10, 1978

The first program tells how music began 35,000 years ago with hollowed-out an...

Episode 3 New Voices for Man

3. New Voices for Man

Aired: Nov 24, 1978

At the height of the Renaissance in Italy Monteverdi wrote the first opera, a...

Episode 8 Sound or Unsound

8. Sound or Unsound

Aired: Dec 29, 1978

The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio a...

Info about The Music of Man

Network: CBC Television

Production Country: Canada

Genres:Documentary, Music