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...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 way that was relatively easy to learn and easy for musicians to use. Pianist Alexander Panfilov performs Mozart's KV265 In this video, pianist Alexander Panfilov performs the first six variations of...

...history, and sadly has been present in many times and places across the globe. People from all ethnic groups have been slaves, and slave masters. But today in the West, the main historical example of slavery that comes to mind is the Atlantic trade in black slaves between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The abiding image is of the slave ships, carrying Africans...

...history. Not that Thackeray is above taking a few liberties of his own...[William Makepeace Thackeray] When Bob's holidays are over, and the printer has sent me back this manuscript, I know Christmas will be an old story. All the fruit will be off the Christmas tree then; the crackers will have cracked off; the almonds will have been crunched; and the sweet-bitter riddles...