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Joanna Lumley & The Maestro

A Few Blobs On A Stave

Joanna Lumley & The Maestro

Bauer Media

Music Commentary, Music

4.7548 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about the written language of music, the 'hieroglyphs' or 'blobs on the stave'. Stephen and Joanna discuss the connection between reading music and words, elaborating on symbols, sounds, expression, speed and time signature. Stephen tests the boundaries of Joanna's musical literacy with a test and Wagner offers a 'moderate' interpretation of tempi.

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0:53.4

Hello, I'm Joanna Lumley. I'm in my garden in London and I'm walking down the garden path to the music room.

1:00.3

In there, I'll find my husband, the composer and conductor, Stephen Barlow. Now, we've been married almost 40 years and I think however long you've been with someone, you have questions that you'd like to ask your partner.

1:13.1

So this podcast is my chance to ask Stephen the questions I've always wanted to ask him about one of his and my greatest passions, classical music.

1:32.3

Welcome to Joanna and the Maestro.

1:35.2

Hello, Maestro.

1:38.1

Welcome to this episode of Joanna and the Maestro.

1:41.9

And it's like going right back to the beginning for me, Stevie,

1:46.4

because this is all going to be about theory. Where do we start? How do we even start on the rudiments of music? Well, I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet

1:52.8

about this because I mentioned when we were talking about ideas for our podcasts that

1:59.1

when I was very young, when I was eight or nine,

2:04.1

and I was already playing the piano and was a bit obsessed with playing the piano,

2:10.1

the sounds, and singing in the Chams of Cathedral Choir,

2:13.8

and, you know, learning to read music properly. And a friend of mine, the next door, you know, learning to read music properly.

2:18.0

And a friend of mine, the next door neighbor's son, Stephen,

2:23.7

Stephen Frostick, and this came back, you know, for 60-odd years,

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