Music of the Spheres
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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
Extract from episode 5, complete but with Bronowski talking over it
Availability
- First broadcast on 2nd June 1973 at 21:05 on BBC2.[2]
- The BBC Sound Archive's tape TRW 7599: "Ascent of Man: Programme 5" is missing.[1]
- A torrent for episode 5 of The Ascent of Man
- A torrent of all but one episode of the whole series, where episode 5 is called espisode 4.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 7599.
- ↑ Search results for "The Ascent of Man" "Music of the Spheres" on the BBC Genome Project.
