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Proms Extra: Music and Moods

Proms Extra: Music and Moods

Thomas Dixon and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen discuss music, literature and emotion.

Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4

July 18, 201720m 58s

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Show Notes

Thomas Dixon, Director of the Centre for the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thormählen look at mood: how composers and writers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness and sorrow in their work, presented by Matthew Sweet.

Producer: Fiona McLean