Month: February 2025

Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

https://youtu.be/qEzmd48TIrA?si=nlmiE2zrtbEl4oEe / 2024 /…(in my opinion)If you watch the video start to finish you’ll pretty much experience the entire history of classical music melody-making Listed in chronological order: 0:00 Claudio Monteverdi 1:38 Heinrich Schütz 2:23 Barbara Strozzi 4:03 Jean-Baptiste Lully 5:29 Henry Purcell 7:34 Arcangelo Corelli 9:13 Georg Friedrich Händel 10:41 Antonio Vivaldi 12:38 Jean-Philippe…… Continue reading Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

Slime Moulds | In Our Time

BBC Radio 4 – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats and compost heaps. Scientists have found difficult to categorise slime mould: in 1868, the biologist Thomas Huxley asked: ‘Is this a plant, or is it an animal? Is it both or is it neither?’ and there…… Continue reading Slime Moulds | In Our Time