CLASSICAL

If you visit Austria today, and in particular Salzburg, you could be forgiven for thinking that WA Mozart was a manufacturer of chocolate or liqueurs. … Read more

I wonder where this statement originates from. I am asking as it implies that all music teachers are strict, possibly even stricter than any other … Read more

Blues is a musical form and a musical genre. The term “blues” derives from its initial relationship with gloomy issues and sounds. When we have … Read more

Even if you have not come across the term minimalist about music, the chances are you have listened to minimalist music. Since Michael Nyman coined … Read more

If you ask almost anyone to name a classical composer, they are highly likely to name Mozart. In part, this is because his music has … Read more

A page filled with music notes can look confusing to the untrained eye. But, when you learn the names of the notes, it all soon … Read more

This, perhaps, is not a topic for the faint-hearted. From the word, you may already have guessed what this means in terms of physical alteration, … Read more

If you take a look back through the hundreds of years of Western Musical history, you’ll quickly discover that many of the composers wrote music … Read more

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most influential and important composers whose life spanned the Classical and Romantic periods. His life began in Bonn, … Read more

In terms of chronology, the Romantic Era followed on directly from the Classical Era. It is important to realise before we make a closer examination … Read more

One of the outstanding differences between these key periods of Western Classical Music is the change in creative thinking. Baroque music as we can clearly … Read more

Before exploring the finer aspects of tonality and atonality, I am going to examine what these terms mean in music. Without delving too far into … Read more