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...learn how musicians use and interpret musical scores in their work. How do scores work? Overcoming the challenge of writing down how sounds relate to the time they occupy was a major breakthrough in the history of Western music notation. Professor Susan Rankin talks to Open University Professor David Rowland about how difficult it was to convey both pitch and rhythm in a...

...learning about the wider cycle of myths of which the narrative of the Iliad was a part. You’ll then look more closely at the story of the poem itself and its major theme of the anger of Achilles, in particular in the opening of the poem. Using this opening, you’ll examine some of the characteristic features of the text: metre, word order (and its effects on...