Key Matters - Exploring their Moods.

[gamba]

Key Matters; BBC Radio 4 Mon. 14th. May - Fri. 18th. May. ( 1.45 - 2.00 pm. )


Mon. 14th. Music historian Ivan Hewett explores the moods of musical keys. Today he is joined by choral conductor Simon Halsey to explore the key of B minor.

Tues.15th. Musicologist Cliff Eisen - key of G minor.

Wed. 16th. Violinist Paul Robertson - E major.

Thurs. 17th. Harpsichordist Terence Charleston - F minor.

Fri. 18th. Pianist Peter Donohoe - C minor.


Why radio 4 ?

[MrGongGong]

I think this has been on before ?
I seem to remember discussing it a few years ago

[french frank]

Why radio 4 ?

Radio 3's schedule is mainly presenter-led sequence programmes now, plus live music. It briefly had a 30-min programme on Sunday afternoons (e.g.Icons) not so long ago but with even Discovering Music reduced to 20 mins during a concert interval there's no regular/weekly music discussion programme. Even Jazz Library has gone.

[Panjandrum]

Why radio 4 ?

Radio 4 has a remit to cover the arts (including music), and as part of that remit, they have commissioned this series. Nonetheless, I agree that there is no reason for it not to be broadcast on R3 as well, in the same way that television programmes are shown on BBC2 and BBC4, for example. Failing that, a trailer on R3 would have been welcome.

[gamba]

If my wife hadn't been poring over the R4 schedule in the R.Times I would have missed it. Yes, a trailer on R3 would have been appreciated.

[3rd Viennese School]

"Why radio 4 ? "


Cause Radio 3 are too busy playing World Music and Elgar. And more Elgar.

3VS

[mercia]

and a new series (Radio 4) of Tales from the Stave, Tuesday 15 May

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hjs0v

[handsomefortune]

thanks for the tip gamba - it looks good!

[Serial_Apologist]

"Life, you know, is like a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key"

Alan Bennett - "The Sermon", from "Beyond the Fringe".

[ardcarp]

Key Matters

BBC Radio 4 Monday lunchtime: new series.

Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to have distinct characteristics and create specific moods

In this one Simon Halsey discussed with Ivan Hewett the key of B minor, mainly in relation to Bach's eponymous Mass. (No-one actually mentioned the point that Bach probably chose B minor so that when the joyous bits came...Et Resurrexit, for example... he could slip into D major, the key for trumpets and drums.)

But here we have yet another musically literate programme on R4 which did not talk down to its listeners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01hl41k

[amateur51]

BBC Radio 4 Monday lunchtime: new series.

Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to have distinct characteristics and create specific moods

In this one Simon Halsey discussed with Ivan Hewett the key of B minor, mainly in relation to Bach's eponymous Mass. (No-one actually mentioned the point that Bach probably chose B minor so that when the joyous bits came...Et Resurrexit, for example... he could slip into D major, the key for trumpets and drums.)

But here we have yet another musically literate programme on R4 which did not talk down to its listeners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01hl41k

Gosh ardcarp, I didn't read your title properly & I assumed that this was a Radio 3 programme

Thanks for posting

[Anna]

There is another thread about this programme here, perhaps they should be merged?

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?5321-Key-Matters-Exploring-their-Moods

[amateur51]

"Life, you know, is like a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key"

Alan Bennett - "The Sermon", from "Beyond the Fringe".

Great stuff, S_A

Hopeless visuals but the sound is fine ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsYN---eGk

[Lateralthinking1]

Music historian Ivan Hewett explores the moods of musical keys. Tues.15th. Musicologist Cliff Eisen - key of G minor.

Aw! This was a very good programme. Interesting, informative and very nicely presented.

[ardcarp]

There was another one...E major...just now. Have to take issue with the statement that 'we are all born with perfect pitch'. Unless an A440 fork is pressed to all mothers' abdomens at frequent pre-natal intervals this is unlikely. There is no universal 'A' floating out there among the spheres! Good programme though.