…period and began to ask myself whether Western classical music has also been influenced at any particular moment in its history by Afro-American music. The notion that classical music was…
…music. Here are 12 of my favorite classical pieces to put on while studying. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “Piano Concerto No. 23 in A” A classical study playlist would not…
…classical-electronic intersection, this collaboration provides perhaps the most immediate entry point. And to many listeners of the electronic avant-garde and new classical music, these names are already paramount in the…
…classical composers are no exception. The arts tends to attract a certain mindset that lends itself to eccentricities, whimsy, and even capriciousness — take Sibelius, Satie, or Scarlatti and Rossini…
…for the guitar, or composers who worked in styles not generally viewed as legitimate in the classical world. Below are 14 composers whose legacies in classical music are worth knowing. While I…
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…asked who your favorite classical saxophonist was, I reckon you’d struggle. While alto and tenor saxophones are virtually synonymous with jazz and regularly featured in contemporary pop, the saxophone has…
…also interspersed with pieces from the classical repertoire. Sánchez is well known in the jazz international scene, having played with Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, and Michael Brecker among many others;…
…because everyone was calling Primephonic the “Spotify of classical music.” And I have to be honest, that kind of marketing nomenclature (“the Airbnb of toilet paper,” “the Uber of radicchio”)…
…they are practiced. If his model is less tidy than the standard classical theory text, so is the world he’s trying to describe. Euroclassical theory was invented to explain the…
…addition of orchestral instrumentation. Many of the listening examples in the course come from the standard classical repertoire, but there’s no reason you have to only create arrangements for a traditional…
…appear in a specific order. In the following section, I’ll explain how that order works for major keys. In classical music, major keys and major scales are the same thing,…
…breaking into it. Despite what many people think, classical music isn’t just a single, monolithic genre of music written by an old, stuffy bunch of dead guys. In fact, European classical…
…style of playing is highly developed and takes many years to master. While the Arabic style contains a large repertoire of popular and classical songs with vocalists, the Turkish style…
…see, the fourth tends to be a melodic dissonance to this very day. In Western classical music, until the 20th century, dissonances were well defined, and they were normally resolved…
…the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in music. A self-taught flautist and self-professed newcomer to classical music, Higdon’s unconventional path to contemporary classical music makes it easy to recognize that she cites…
…attract this many people. Is his playing truly noteworthy? Is there something unique about translating classical music to a traditionally folk instrument? Or is it something in the choice of piece…
…the intervening 300 years because of classical music’s failure to recognize Clara and Fanny as contributors to the classical canon — removing that source of inspiration and welcoming for all…
…on Ethan Hein’s blog. I’m trying to get better at understanding classical music, ideally without doing too much Schenkerian analysis. I can hunt for cadences as well as anyone who’s…
…talk about a narrative (Little’s “and the sky was still there”). You’re mixing elements from the composed/classical realm with electronics, pre-recorded stuff, and even instruments that aren’t commonly thought of…
…to analyze with classical harmony. It’s a bit like an augmented sixth chord. I mean, in classical European harmony, you can build a seventh chord on the sixth scale degree,…
…from the classical repertoire, since that’s where these terms are most used). That said, they are a great tool for any musician to help finish the your musical sentences. The…
Eunbi Kim is a classical pianist with a flare for chasing down some pretty unexpected projects and, in the process, flipping the typical path of a concert performer right on…
…to play a musical instrument, especially in the Western classical tradition, has at some point encountered a book containing the word “études” materialize on their music stand. And like most…
…help a pop song rise to the level of classical music. It abandons the repeated progression in order to create a stronger moment of tension and release. We hear the CM7,…
