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And in the 21st century ... (Music) Now your 21st century ears are quite happy with this last chord, even though a while back it would have puzzled or annoyed you or sent some of you running from the room.

And in classical music we can follow these changes very, very accurately because of the music's powerful silent partner, the way it's been passed on: notation.

Now the impulse to notate, or, more exactly I should say, encode music has been with us for a very long time.

Well notation not only passed the music on, notating and encoding the music changed its priorities entirely, because it enabled the musicians to imagine music on a much vaster scale.

And from this moment, classical music became what it most essentially is, a dialogue between the two powerful sides of our nature: instinct and intelligence.

And by the 1400s, music was being written that tried to mirror God's mind as could be seen in the design of the night sky.

The 'how' was a style called polyphony, music of many independently moving voices that suggested the way the planets seemed to move in Ptolemy's geocentric universe.

This was truly the music of the spheres.

This is the kind of music that Leonardo DaVinci would have known.

MTT: This, of course, was the birth of opera, and its development put music on a radical new course.

Now with all this possibility, classical music really took off.

And the effects of technology began to be felt also, because printing put music, the scores, the codebooks of music, into the hands of performers everywhere.

But whatever direction the music took, one thing until recently was always the same, and that was when the musicians stopped playing, the music stopped.

What happens when the music stops?

To me this is the intimate, personal side of music.

People could now hear music all the time, even though it wasn't necessary for them to play an instrument, read music or even go to concerts.

And technology democratized music by making everything available.

At the same time technology, by taking over the role that notation had always played, shifted the balance within music between instinct and intelligence way over to the instinctive side.

The culture in which we live now is awash with music of improvisation that's been sliced, diced, layered and, God knows, distributed and sold.

What's the long-term effect of this on us or on music?

The question remains: What happens when the music stops?

Now that we have unlimited access to music, what does stick with us?

And I suddenly got it, and I said, "Friend, by any chance are you trying to play this?" (Music) And he said, "Yes, yes.

And I thought, my God, how much must this music mean to this man that he would get himself out of his bed, across the room to recover the memory of this music that, after everything else in his life is sloughing away, still means so much to him?

But now I'm excited that there's more chance than ever before possible of sharing this music.

That's what drives my interest in projects like the TV series "Keeping Score" with the San Francisco Symphony that looks at the backstories of music, and working with the young musicians at the New World Symphony on projects that explore the potential of the new performing arts centers for both entertainment and education.

And it excites me now to meet people who are hikers, chefs, code writers, taxi drivers, people I never would have guessed who loved the music and who are passing it on.

So the second thought I had was that I would tell the story of the history of music delivery, literally from the beginning, from pounding rocks to pounding rock.

So for 10,000 years, if you want to make music, you literally pick up rocks, later instruments, those sorts of things.

We have a class of experts, professionals, who play very expensive instruments, for the most part, things like the organ, complicated instruments, and if you wanted to hear music in the 18th century, it was live.

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