Music and Humans

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Today we take music for granted but humans have a unique relationship with the musical form which reaches back far into our ancient past. In this episode Dan is joined by Michael Spitzer, Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool and author of The Musical Human, to discuss the history of music. From the first ancient Greek melody we have been able to recreate; to the first scraps of music notations that are yet to be deciphered and what music has meant for our evolution as a species and how we interact with each other.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:05.4	Talk about music today.
0:07.3	Music has got a remarkable history.
0:09.6	We're going to talk about the first complete melody that we're able to recreate.
0:15.8	It's an ancient Greek melody.
0:17.5	We're going to talk about the first scraps of musical notation that we've got.
0:21.5	We don't actually know what it means.
0:23.0	We're going to talk about the importance of music on our evolution, on our species, on
0:27.1	how we interact with each other.
0:29.2	It's a great conversation, I think, with the wonderful Michael Spitz.
0:31.5	He's a professor of music at the University of Liverpool.
0:34.3	He's the world's leading authority on Beethoven, which is a wonderful thing to be.
0:39.2	He lives just off penny lane in Liverpool.
0:42.4	He lives music.
0:43.4	He loves music.
0:44.4	He has to tell me all about the history of music.
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0:58.9	We just kick back.
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