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Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail.

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    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5

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    Stephen Johnson explores Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 5.

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Online Video Library

The latest videos in the Discovering Music video library feature clarinet concertos by Copland and Arnold.

The library also includes videos of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

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Find out what musical terms mean, and view online videos of how they sound in music.

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Coming up

Sun, 10 Jan 2010, 17:00 on Radio 3

Foxtrots

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore classical foxtrots for orchestra.

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