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Is Music a Universal Language?
Tom Service asks whether music really is a universal language.
Drums
Tom Service considers drums - ancient instruments, yet capable of great sophistication.
Orientalism and the Music of Elsewhere
Tom Service unpicks western music's debt to the exotic, from Mozart to Ligeti and beyond.
Searching for Paradise
The Listening Service joins the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Civilisations season to sound the divine in music.
The Listening Service at Free Thinking
Tom Service explores the idea of polyphony live at the Free Thinking Festival.
The French Horn Unwound
Tom Service on the enduring appeal of the 12-foot metal tube that is the French horn.
Debussy the Impressionist?
Tom Service considers whether Claude Debussy was an impressionist or not.
Sonata Form - or There and Back Again
In this edition of The Listening Service, Tom Service tells stories in sonata form.
I guess that's why they call it the Blues
Tom Service discovers 'the Blues', from its earliest origins to its widest influence.
From the New World?
Tom Service examines Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony.
