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The Listening Service Episodes

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    The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies

    Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 demonstration of how to harmonize a melody to maximum effect...

  2. The Listening Service Extra 6 of 12 - Twelve Tones

    Schoenberg鈥檚 distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones...

  3. The Listening Service Extra 5 of 12 - Boiling Water

    Schoenberg鈥檚 experience in the new atonal world...

  4. The Listening Service Extra 4 of 12 - Schoenberg鈥檚 IDEA

    Schoenberg鈥檚 conception of what the 鈥渋dea鈥� of a piece of music really was...

  5. The Listening Service Extra 3 of 12 - Dissonance

    Tom explores what Schoenberg meant by the dissonance and how he broke free from tonality.

  6. The Listening Service Extra 2 of 12 - Heir to the German Mainstream

    Tom looks at why Schoenberg felt a strong lineage from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bach

  7. The Listening Service Extra 12 of 12 - Schoenberg鈥檚 Compositional Vision

    Tom explores how Schoenberg hears the music that he is going to write.

  8. The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception

    We hear Schoenberg on the reception of his music in America, Europe.

  9. The Listening Service Extra 10 of 12 - Do the correct notes matter?

    Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 plea to musicians to play the correct notes in his String Trio.

  10. The Listening Service Extra 1 of 12 - Who am I?

    Schoenberg鈥檚 objection to being dubbed a 鈥渇amous theoretician and controversial musician鈥�

  11. The Double Bass

    Why is the double bass more, much more than the elephant in the room?

  12. Searching for Paradise - 2018 Proms Special

    Exploring sacred music and how it transports us to the divine.

  13. Proms Interval: What makes music D-I-S-C-O?

    Flares and big collars at the ready as Tom Service asks: what makes music D-I-S-C-O?

  14. Proms Interval: What makes music D-I-S-C-O?

    Flares and big collars at the ready as Tom Service asks: what makes music D-I-S-C-O?

  15. Proms Interval: Turangalila!

    A whistle-stop tour of Olivier Messiaen's epic Turangalila Symphony with Tom Service.

  16. Proms Interval: The Planets

    Tom Service with his own take on Gustav Holst

  17. Proms Interval: The Horn

    Tom Service with his own take on a theme from tonight's Prom

  18. Proms Interval: The Eroica

    Tom Service's take on Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'.

  19. Proms Interval: Smetana's Ma Vlast - musical myth-making and majesty

    Tom Service examines the cultural significance of Smetana鈥檚 Ma Vlast (My Country).

  20. Proms Interval: Music and Memory

    Tom Service asks how and why professional classical musicians play from memory.

  21. Proms Interval: Mozart and the Enlightenment

    Tom Service considers the impact of Enlightenment thinking on Mozart and his music.

  22. Proms Interval: Bruckner and the Symphonic Boa Constrictors

    Tom Service with his own take on Anton Bruckner.

  23. Pioneers of Sound - Proms 2018 Special

    Why synths are so cool

  24. Mahler's 8th Symphony - 2018 Proms Special

    Dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight

  25. In Space no-one can hear you sing...

    Tom Service is on a mission to discover the real music of space

  26. In space no-one can hear you sing

    An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service

  27. In It to Win It

    Do musical competitions pick the real winners?

  28. I guess that's why they call it the Blues

    Tom Service discovers the Blues from its earliest origins to its widest influence.

  29. Good Grief?

    Tom Service explores what makes music an essential part of mourning.

  30. Folk Music - 2018 Proms Special

    Tom delves in to folk music鈥檚 mysterious history ahead of Prom 27

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