An opera tells a story and the Magic Flute is a story of light and dark. During the Classical period some instruments underwent significant development. Harpsichords with plucked strings were ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Romantic music developed directly from the classical period. There is no clear date ... As his music developed with new instruments and techniques, his later works can be called romantic.

We use a lot of classical music for testing, with Claude Debussy standing out as one of our most listened-to composers.

There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire ...

Classical music, which some might regard ... co-founder of Twelfth Night, a group that uses period instruments and is currently ensemble-in-residence at Early Music Seattle.

Over €540,000 has been awarded to performing groups and musicians including 40 marching and samba bands and orchestras to ...

Well, Sarah, a “toccata” (and yes, that’s Italian — from “toccare," to touch) is a musical composition, primarily for ...

Janusz Olejniczak, the distinguished Polish pianist and teacher who performed the piano parts in the Oscar-winning 2002 film ...

“For someone who’s never been to an organ concert or maybe has never been to a classical music concert ... in pairings with vocalists, period instruments, and in rarely-heard collaborations ...

Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius on period instruments won this year's Choral category A pioneering period-instrument recording of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius from Anna Stéphany, Nicky Spence, Andrew ...