- 00:00:00 Klein: “Tonight we’re all about the alluring sound of the lower strings, the cellos and the basses …”
- 00:02:20 Nwanoku: “We are the foundation of all music … People normally think of us as the underpinning, the base of the harmony … we’re also the rhythmic structure that holds everything in place …”; historical development from arpeggiation into a more linear role
- 00:58:00 Feature on the octobass; Berlioz as a fan. Montreal Symphony Orchestra only orchestra to have a player, Eric Chappell, who plays excerpt from Mahler 1.
- 01:06:00 Gareth Malone: “When does inspiration become borrowing, when does borrowing become quotation, and when does quotation become plagiarism?” Chi-chi Nwanoku: only real problem is with [cultural appropriation]; PRS founded after death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for this reason.
Contents
- music by Gustav Mahler
- music by Camille Saint-Saëns
- music by Elizabeth Ogonek
- music by Henry Purcell
- words by Nahum Tate
- music by Johannes Brahms
- The Hunger Games (film) • 00:59:50 • Brief mention of film as one usage of the octobass
from Dido and Aeneas
Topics covered by this tv
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