1026: As simple as do-re-mi

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The year is 1026, Italy. A monk called Guido d'Arezzo causes a musical revolution when he designs a way to notate and share music. His invention of the stave - and the notion of do-re-mi-fa-soh - allows music to be written down and shared. It also ensures the survival of the transcendent music of abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen, one of the first composers whose name we know. Gillian Moore is joined by a roster of distinguished historians for this major new BBC Radio 3 series, charting a course through 1000 years of classical music history. For the first eight programmes, historian Michael Wood is in the chair, as together they explore the bold new sound worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Producer: David Fay Academic Consultant: Professor Laura Tunbridge, University of Oxford Story Consultant: Kate Leys Series Editor for BBC Audio: Emma Harding Key Changes theme tune composed by Joseph Howard and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Kerem Hasan. MUSIC DETAILS Anonymous: Ut queant laxis BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Richard Rodgers: Do-Re-Mi (The Sound of Music) Julie Andrews (voice) Studio Orchestra and Cast Anonymous: Vexilla Regis BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Anonymous: In dies resurrectionis (Old Roman Chant) Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès (director) Gustav Holst: The Hymn of Jesus (Prelude) Hallé Choir Hallé Youth Choir Hallé Mark Elder (conductor) James MacMillan: Miserere Marian Consort Rory McCleary (conductor) James MacMillan: Gaude, Gaude (Veni, Veni Emanuel) Evelyn Glennie (percussion) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Sarasate (conductor) James MacMillan: Sedebit domnius rex (The Strathclyde Motets) The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) James MacMillan: Since it was the day of preparation… (Conclusion and Postlude) Hebrides Ensemble Synergy Vocals Anonymous: Dies Irae chant BBC Singers Owain Park (conductor) Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (5th mvt) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) Hildegard of Bingen: Ave generosa, gloriosa Margaret Philpot (alto) Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutem (excerpt) Sequentia Hildegard of Bingen: O magne Pater Sabine Lutzenberger (soprano and bells) Hildegard of Bingen arr. Sarah Kirkland Snider: O virtus Sapientiae Emily d’Angelo (mezzo soprano) Kuss Quartet