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A Taster of Jazz Music, Jazz Documentaries & Biographies

Here you will find some music clips and the first part of a programme -- you can find the rest of the film/programme in my 'Playlist'.

Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.

From its beginnings in the early 20th century jazz has spawned a variety of subgenres: New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz, free jazz from the 1950s and 1960s. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local, national, and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.

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A Taster of Crime, Drama, Mysteries & Comedy of 1920s/1930s

These are just a clip from each programme, full episodes are in the 'Playlist'.

Between the wars were the real Golden Age of Crime writers and Julian Symons heads two chapters devoted to the Golden Age as "the Twenties" and "the Thirties". Many of the authors of the Golden Age were British and majority of the clips here will be of period drama/crime staged for television. Also some radio dramatisations will be uploaded and odd film clips.

Hope you enjoy the clips and if you like these please seek out the DVDs, I can ensure you that you will enjoy them thoroughly.

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Baroque Composers - Documentaries, Extras & Films

The Baroque era of music followed the Renaissance between the years 1600 through to 1750 during which time music compositions began to evolve into a unique form and style, indeed the Baroque period produced new forms of musical language and written score still recognised and widely used today. This is a group of documentaries and films about various Baroque Composers. My other playlists has their music, concerts and opera performances.

First batch of video clips are from 'The Birth of British Music' starting with the 4 parts episode of 'Henry Purcell' and followed by 'Handel'.

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Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) Music - Concerts & Operas

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.

Henry Purcell is one of the most seminal but mysterious figures of British musical history. Charles investigates what life would have been like for a composer in 17th century London through a wide range of Purcell's music, from the vast but often overlooked output of tavern songs to his glorious sacred music and pioneering stage works such as Dido and Aeneas.

Here are a number of music clips from Operas and Concerts of Henry Purcell's work.

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Handel, George F. (1685-1759) Music - Concerts & Operas

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, and concertos. Handel was born in Germany in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. He received critical musical training in Italy before settling in London and becoming a naturalised British subject. His works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks. He was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

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Bach, Johann S. (1685-1750) Music - Concerts & Staged

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.

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Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) - Music, Concerts & Staged

Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764):

Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin.

Little is known about Rameau's early years, and it was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722). He was almost 50 before he embarked on the operatic career on which his reputation chiefly rests. His debut, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), caused a great stir and was fiercely attacked for its revolutionary use of harmony by the supporters of Lully's style of music. Nevertheless, Rameau's pre-eminence in the field of French opera was soon acknowledged, and he was later attacked as an "establishment" composer by those who favoured Italian opera during the controversy known as the Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s.

Rameau's music had gone out of fashion by the end of the 18th century, and it was not until the 20th that serious efforts were made to revive it. Today, he enjoys renewed appreciation with performances and recordings of his music ever more frequent.

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Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643 Music - Concerts & Staged

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition: the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Enjoying fame in his lifetime, he wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, which is still regularly performed.

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