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Delia created a piece as backing music for Bronowski's 1973 BBC TV series ''The Ascent of Man'' episode 5: "Music of the Spheres".
 
Delia created a piece as backing music for Bronowski's 1973 BBC TV series ''The Ascent of Man'' episode 5: "Music of the Spheres".
  
Delia's music appears from 44:47 to 46:54 accompanying simple computer graphics; a fragment is repeated in the closing few seconds.
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Delia's music appears from 44:47 to 46:54 accompanying simple computer graphics; a fragment is repeated in the closing few seconds. The initial part is also used in episode 1 at 1428 seconds without Bronowski speaking over it (below, "Music of the Spheres clean") and in espisode 11 at 650 seconds.
  
 
Its tape's catalogue entry is dated May 1972.<ref name=TLL/>
 
Its tape's catalogue entry is dated May 1972.<ref name=TLL/>
  
 
Note that this is a different piece from [[Music of Spheres]].
 
Note that this is a different piece from [[Music of Spheres]].
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=[[Spectrogram]]=
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The clean extract from episode 1<BR>
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{{Spectrogallery|Music of the Spheres clean}}
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Extract from episode 5, complete but with Bronowski talking over it<BR>
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{{Spectrogallery|Music of the Spheres}}
  
 
=Availability=
 
=Availability=
* Broadcast in 1973.<ref name=imdb>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484307/ ''The Ascent of Man: Music of the Spheres''] on imdb.com</ref>
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* First broadcast on 2nd June 1973 at 21:05 on BBC2.<ref name=genome>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=%22the+ascent+of+man%22+%22music+of+the+spheres%22 Search results for "The Ascent of Man" "Music of the Spheres"] on the BBC Genome Project.</ref>
 
* The BBC Sound Archive's tape [[TRW 7599]]: "Ascent of Man: Programme 5" is missing.<ref name=TLL>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 7599]].</ref>
 
* The BBC Sound Archive's tape [[TRW 7599]]: "Ascent of Man: Programme 5" is missing.<ref name=TLL>The [[Tape Library List]]'s entry for [[TRW 7599]].</ref>
 
* [[:File:BBC.The.Ascent.of.Man.05of13.Music.of.the.Spheres.torrent|A torrent for episode 5 of ''The Ascent of Man'']]
 
* [[:File:BBC.The.Ascent.of.Man.05of13.Music.of.the.Spheres.torrent|A torrent for episode 5 of ''The Ascent of Man'']]
{{Play|Music of the Spheres}}
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* [[:File:BBC - Ascent of Man. History, Documentary.torrent|A torrent of all but one episode of the whole series]], where episode 5 is called espisode 4.
  
 
=References=
 
=References=
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Latest revision as of 18:26, 29 April 2023

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Delia created a piece as backing music for Bronowski's 1973 BBC TV series The Ascent of Man episode 5: "Music of the Spheres".

Delia's music appears from 44:47 to 46:54 accompanying simple computer graphics; a fragment is repeated in the closing few seconds. The initial part is also used in episode 1 at 1428 seconds without Bronowski speaking over it (below, "Music of the Spheres clean") and in espisode 11 at 650 seconds.

Its tape's catalogue entry is dated May 1972.[1]

Note that this is a different piece from Music of Spheres.

Spectrogram

The clean extract from episode 1
Music of the Spheres clean - Spectrogram.jpg

Extract from episode 5, complete but with Bronowski talking over it
Music of the Spheres - Spectrogram.jpg

Availability

References