This is my powerpoint on the significance of music progressing through time

1. History of music
1927
2016
1938
Fred Astaire
Top Hat
1935
1940
1950
Disney
Gene Kelly
1961
Leonard
Bernstein
1957
Richard Lester
1963
1964
Ready steady Go!
Top of the pops
1967
1981
Thriller: Michael Jackson
1983
1987
Peter Gabriel
Sledgehammer
1994

2. Thomas Alva Edison
• The phonograph is a device invented in 1877
for the mechanical recording and
reproduction of sound.
• In its later forms it is also called a
gramophone since 1887.

3. Alexander Nevsky
• Alexander Nevsky is a 1938
historical drama film directed by
Sergei Eisenstein.
• 1978 the film was included in the
world's 100 best motion pictures
• The film was the first of Eisenstein's
dramatic films to use sound.

4. Disney
• Fantasia is a 1940 American
animated film produced by Walt
Disney and released by Walt Disney
Productions.
• The film consists of eight animated
segments set to pieces of classical
music conducted by Leopold
Stokowski, seven of which are
performed by the Philadelphia
Orchestra

5. Musical Plays
• Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical comedy
film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and
Stanley Donen
• It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the
late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers
caught up in the transition from silent films to
"talkies.“
• West Side Story is an American musical with
a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard
Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and
choreography by Jerome Robbins It was inspired
by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

6. Ready steady Go!
• It was broadcast from
August 1963 until
December 1966. (ITV)
• RSG! artists mimed to
records but by late 1964
some performed live and
the show switched to all-
live performances in April
1965.

7. Top of the Pops
• It was traditionally shown every
Thursday evening on BBC1, except for a
short period on Fridays in mid-1973
before being again moved to Fridays in
1996, and then to Sundays on BBC Two
in 2005.
• Jimmy Savile presented the first show
live from the Manchester studio.

8. MTV
• Launched on August 1, 1981 the
original purpose of the channel was
to play music videos guided by
television personalities known as
"video jockeys," or VJs.
• This gave the opportunity for people
to watch music videos on the TV as
YouTube wasn’t out then.