Around 1830, the Romantic period slowly emerged from the delicate form of the Classical period, breaking musical boundaries and expanding orchestral forces to embody emotions and extra-musical ideas ...

In common musical forms of the Classical period, such as sonata form, modulations to the dominant, subdominant and relative minor keys are all fairly common in the development section, ie the ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least ...

Just when you thought every angle for a music festival had been exhausted, cellist Tanya Tomkins and fortepianist Eric Zivian came up with a new one. Valley of the Moon Music Festival, which ...

A period in art and music from around 1600-1750. Composers include Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Bach, Vivaldi and Handel. Basso Continuo (Italian: 'continuous bass'). A form of bass line used in music ...

Medieval period: Persian influence. During the Mughal rule in India, Indian Classical music emerged as two separate traditions - North Indian Hindustani and the south Indian Carnatic, mainly ...

Though all music can be documented and experienced in multiple ways—scores, recordings, live performances—one approach to distinguishing musical traditions is to ask which form a given ...

Albert Imperato, a New York music promoter, says the idea is breaking through that classical music is not supposed to be safe and relaxing. It’s supposed to tingle.

In common musical forms of the Classical period, such as sonata form, modulations to the dominant, subdominant and relative minor keys are all fairly common in the development section, ie the ...