Alexandra Coghlan

The history of music – at breakneck speed

Starting with the bone flutes of 40,000 BC, Andrew Gant gallops through polyphony, Beethoven and Schoenberg, right up to the YouTube sensation Jacob Collier

A page from Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ sonata. [Alamy]
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