Time Travel Through Music - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

What if you could travel back in time to experience see and hear what life was like 300 years ago? Music can do just that. Join the musicians of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on a lively exploration of the creation of baroque music. Meet members of the orchestra, and experience their passion for the music they play and the special instruments they use to travel back in time.

1. Music in Motion: Always Changing (6:10)
Music is an expression of the time and place in which it was first created. What gives music from the baroque period in Europe (1600-1750 CE) its distinctive sound? Why is it still worth listening to today? Musicians from the orchestra talk about why they find it so moving.

2. "Period" Instruments: The Original Sound (13:30)
Musicians in Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra play on period instruments - instruments that were made during the periods in which the music was composed, or their replicas. Learn how these instruments create a sound like the one a person living in that time would have heard.

3. Working Together: Rehearsals (9:20)
Making this sound come alive requires preparation and collaboration. Hear how the musicians work with the conductor in the rehearsal process to create a concert performance and make the music come alive.

4. Add the Audience . . . Performance (5:20)
The payoff for everyone, musician and listener, is the performance. Hear how the musicians of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale bring this all together in a performance of the finale of Henry Purcell's Dioclesian, composed in England in 1690.