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  1. Click for Expanded View of Howard Goodall: Just Where Does Music Come From?

    Howard Goodall
    Clip Length: 03:21
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 25 Feb 2013 
  2. Click for Expanded View of Laura van der Heijden's winning performance at the BBC Young Musician 2012 Final

    Clip Length: 02:06
    Clip type: Video
    Added 4 hours ago 
  3. Click for Expanded View of Stephen Evans on the views and music of Wagner

    Richard Wagner
    Clip Length: 04:30
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 7 hours ago 
  4. Click for Expanded View of The Dambusters Theme Live

    Clip Length: 02:25
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 2 days ago 
  5. Click for Expanded View of The Military Wives Choir perform ‘Wherever You Are’

    Clip Length: 02:59
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 2 days ago 
  6. Click for Expanded View of Gabrielle Aplin sings ‘Underneath The Stars’

    Clip Length: 03:06
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 2 days ago 
  7. Click for Expanded View of Jacquie Dankworth sings ‘A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SQ’

    Clip Length: 04:09
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 2 days ago 
  8. Click for Expanded View of Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley perform Criss Cross by Alvin Lucier

    Clip Length: 02:07
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  9. Click for Expanded View of Hanna Tuulikki performing Voice of the Bird (excerpt) at the Tectonics Festival

    Clip Length: 02:16
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  10. Click for Expanded View of Tom Service introduces this week's Music Matters

    Clip Length: 02:09
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  11. Click for Expanded View of Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

    Igor Stravinsky
    Clip Length: 35:54
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  12. Click for Expanded View of Matthias Pintscher: Chute d'Étoiles - Hommage à Anselm Kiefer

    Matthias Pintscher
    Clip Length: 21:10
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  13. Click for Expanded View of Elias String Quartet and Martin Frost play Mozart

    Clip Length: 06:13
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  14. Click for Expanded View of Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Crin by Jorge Sanchez-Chiong

    Clip Length: 01:00
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  15. Click for Expanded View of The Death of Wagner.

    Clip Length: 06:29
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  16. Click for Expanded View of Vaughan Williams on performing baroque music

    Clip Length: 02:19
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 30 Mar 2013 
  17. Click for Expanded View of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)

    Clip Length: 53:23
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 3 days ago 
  18. Click for Expanded View of Stephen Hough on his latest performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Clip Length: 04:27
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  19. Click for Expanded View of Phil Hall on working with Tippett and the Symphony No.1

    Clip Length: 02:40
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  20. Click for Expanded View of Stephen Hough on Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2

    Clip Length: 03:39
    Clip type: Video
    Added 3 days ago 
  21. Click for Expanded View of Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2

    Clip Length: 37:51
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 4 days ago 
  22. Click for Expanded View of Ana-Maria Avram conducting Metalstorm (II) (extract) at the Tectonics Festival

    Clip Length: 02:04
    Clip type: Video
    Added 4 days ago 
  23. Click for Expanded View of Rolando Villazon

    Clip Length: 06:51
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 4 days ago 
  24. Click for Expanded View of Schumann: String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

    Clip Length: 32:48
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 5 days ago 
  25. Click for Expanded View of The Ulster Orchestra And Verdi's Requiem

    Clip Length: 07:04
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 5 days ago 
  26. Click for Expanded View of Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics: Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room

    Clip Length: 11:13
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 5 days ago 
  27. Click for Expanded View of Classics Unwrapped - My Music: Bryan Burnett

    Clip Length: 07:23
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 5 days ago 
  28. Click for Expanded View of Louis Lortie plays Chopin

    Clip Length: 05:16
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 6 days ago 
  29. Click for Expanded View of RAF Brass Quintet play Gershwin's Strike Up The Band

    Clip Length: 02:54
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 6 days ago 
  30. Click for Expanded View of Also Sprach Zarathustra with BBC National Orchestra of Wales / gyda Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC

    Clip Length: 01:58
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 6 days ago 
  31. Click for Expanded View of Elizabeth Kenny, Matthew Brook & Sophie Daneman perform Did You Not Once, Lucinda, Vow? by Charles Coleman

    Clip Length: 02:54
    Clip type: Audio
    Added 6 days ago 

Howard Goodall: Just Where Does Music Come From?

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BBC Radio 6 Music

Mary Anne Hobbs: Where Does Music Come From?

24.02.13 Composer, broadcaster, presenter of The Story of Music on BBC Two and all-round music expert Howard Goodall answers Mary Anne's burning question for his 3 Minute Epiphany: just where does music come from?
Added 25 Feb 2013
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