Season 3 · Episode 16
Early English Music
The Top 40 from the 11th to the 16th Century
Willy Willy Harry Stee... · Charlie Higson
March 21, 20251h 8m
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Show Notes
In this episode, Charlie Higson looks at the development of English music - what we know about its early history and the way the sound and styles developed from the kind of monastic chanting in unison you get in Monty Python through the introduction of polyphony and harmony, to the wonders of Thomas Tallis, the first great English composer
Assisting Charlie on his musical odyssey is Robert Hollingworth, conductor, composer, broadcaster and leader of musical group I Fagiolini who uses music to demonstrate the changing sounds of England.
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