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How Do You Make a National Anthem?

Tom Service on the music, meaning and occasional madness of national anthems.

• 29 mins

How do you describe a teaspoon in music?

Tom Service explores music's power to describe, illustrate and tell stories in sound.

• 30 mins

Is Birdsong Music?

Tom Service asks how birdsong has inspired and equipped human music over the years.

• 34 mins

Beethoven - Hero or Villain?

Tom Service asks if posterity's casting of Beethoven as a hero is problematic.

• 28 mins

Why does music move us?

Tom Service investigates how music can tug on our heartstrings like nothing else.

• 28 mins

Chasing a Fugue

Tom Service explores fugues. How do they work and why are they important?

• 28 mins

Transcendence

Tom Service considers musical transcendence.

• 31 mins

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto

Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.

• 32 mins

Why is music addicted to bass?

Tom Service explores the intrinsic importance to humans of bass in music.

• 28 mins

Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

As part of Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound.

• 29 mins

Tristan und Isolde

Tom Service on the supercharged emotional impact of Wagner's epic opera Tristan und Isolde

• 28 mins

Colour and music

Tom Service explores the link between music and colour. Can music be colourful?

• 28 mins

Schubert - The Dark Side

Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert.

• 30 mins

Cover Versions

Tom Service explores cover versions 鈥� from Baroque to pop.

• 28 mins

Improvisation

Tom Service considers the art of musical improvisation with David Toop and Joelle Leandre.

• 28 mins

The Semitone

Tom Service on what can be done with the semitone, the smallest interval in western music.

• 28 mins

Background Music

Tom Service considers what is background music and how it functions in our lives.

• 28 mins

The bells, the bells...

The mystery, magic and music associated with bells.

• 30 mins

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�

• 3 mins

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

• 3 mins

The Listening Service Extra 3 of 12 - Dissonance

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

• 3 mins

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...

• 3 mins

The Listening Service Extra 5 of 12 - Boiling Water

Schoenberg鈥檚 experience in the new atonal world...

• 3 mins

The Listening Service Extra 6 of 12 - Twelve Tones

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

• 4 mins

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...

• 4 mins

The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg

We listen to Schoenberg鈥檚 praise of his pupil, Alban Berg...

• 3 mins

The Listening Service Extra 9 of 12 - Tennis Partners

Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 love of Gershwin, who was also his tennis partner in Hollywood.

• 3 mins

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.

• 2 mins

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.

• 3 mins

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.

• 4 mins