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• Why do babies love music so much?

  Are all babies born musical? And can music really affect development? Tom investigates.

  

• Tom Service poses a very simple question (with a not-so-simple answer).

  

• From babies to Mongolian throat singers: whose voice is the most extreme of all?

  

• Civilisations - Listen to our three-part companion to the 麻豆社 TV series.

  Three editions of The Listening Service to accompany the major new 麻豆社 TV series.

  

• How did the number 12 revolutionise music?

  How Schoenberg opened a new cosmos for composers and listeners to explore.

  

  Duration: 3:00

• Why are we all addicted to bass?

  Bass is everywhere, but why do we enjoy it? Join Tom Service on a journey of discovery.

  

  Duration: 3:32

• Join Tom Service on a musical journey through beginnings, repetition and bass lines.

  

• We like to think we can separate 鈥渘oise鈥� from 鈥渕usic鈥�, but is it that simple?

  

• Tom Service examines the phenomenon of synaesthesia.

  

• What can babies hear in the womb?

  Some of our earliest music lessons are learned before we're even born.

  Duration: 4:22

• The calm after the storm...

  From Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony".

  Duration: 0:50

• Tempestuous Beethoven

  The Storm from Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony

  Duration: 0:55

• Anger in Classical period music

  From the Dies Irae movement of Mozart's Requiem.

  Duration: 0:40
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