Music is full of questions isn't it? To
play or sing a piece of music you need
to know all sorts of things, how does it
go? how fast? how slow?
what does Allegro mean? and what do all
those marks on the page say to us? why
are they there? what did the composer
want? and how do we do that?
In the history of singing and playing, musicians
have learned from other musicians what
we know what we think has been handed on
from one generation to the other
each one taking on all the ideas playing
with them sometimes rejecting them and
then sometimes bringing in completely
new ideas instead. When you look at a
page of music and it says 2 4 well
there's a short answer to what that
means but then there is the backstory of
how we came to think about music in bars
and beats. It turns out the music like
all art like life isn't just a series of
simple answers. It's much more
interesting than that, it's more fun, it's
more complicated it's more full of
surprises where answers actually need
just two bigger questions questions that
are still living in music right now so
who better to take you on this adventure
through music than a band of expert
musicians players who are not just
masters of the art today but who live
and breathe the sounds, struggles and
successes of musicians of the past they
can tell you the amazing story of music
through time from the humble quaver to
the great symphony and finally this
series is a conversation that language
that musicians speak is developed in a
long long conversation over many years
and so it will continue just post in the
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