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Did you know that German composer Richard Wagner and American composer John Philip Sousa collaborated on a musical work that helped launch British sketch comedy? Robbie Ellis explains, with the help of Mina Zikri and the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago.
READ MORE: wfmt.com/2020/02/21/robbie-ellis-comedy-tunes-prove-that-classical-music-can-be-funny-videos
Did you know that German composer Richard Wagner and American composer John Philip Sousa collaborated on a musical work that helped launch British sketch comedy? Robbie Ellis explains, with the help of Mina Zikri and the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago.
READ MORE: wfmt.com/2020/02/21/robbie-ellis-comedy-tunes-prove-that-classical-music-can-be-funny-videos
![Wagner & Sousa Invented British Sketch Comedy [Musical History Lesson]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z_ZclpnDWNU/mqdefault.jpg "Wagner & Sousa Invented British Sketch Comedy [Musical History Lesson]
Did you know that German composer Richard Wagner and American composer John Philip Sousa collaborated on a musical work that helped launch British sketch comedy? Robbie Ellis explains, with the help of Mina Zikri and the Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago.
READ MORE: https://www.wfmt.com/2020/02/21/robbie-ellis-comedy-tunes-prove-that-classical-music-can-be-funny-videos/")
![Harmonics as Special Effects [Math in Music Ep. 9]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a03F6vl3qzM/mqdefault.jpg "Harmonics as Special Effects [Math in Music Ep. 9]
There is a harmonic series in music based on the one in math. Host Eugenia Cheng demonstrates how the use of harmonics on strings (even in a piano) and the voice are used by composers deliberately, for special effects.")
