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unusual facts about programme music



Music for Prague 1968

Music for Prague 1968 is a programmatic work written by Czech-born composer Karel Husa for symphonic band and later transcribed for full orchestra, written shortly after the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968.


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Music and movement

The BBC ran a Schools Music Department from the 1940s to the 1970s and broadcast the radio programme Music and Movement twice weekly: it was much used in the British primary education system.

Roger Doyle

He has won the Programme Music Prize (1997) and the Magisterium Prize (2007) at the Bourges International Electro-Acoustic Competition in Bourges, France.