His dislike for pigeonholing present or historical composers other than Western Europeans or Northern Americans as ‘composers of the national schools/styles’ and placing them somewhere on the ...

Minimalist music - AQA Minimalist music is a form of Western art music that developed during the 1960s and 1970s. Minimalist composers took the music back to its basics of pitch and rhythm.

Classical music has always been global. A century ago America was the land of opportunity: Dvorak went there to run a New York conservatoire; celebrated virtuosi like violinist Fritz Kreisler and ...

Clint Eastwood's musical talents shocked when he performed "Beyond the Sun" in Rawhide, launching his musical career.

The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western classical music. The bass is used ...

Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music, however they are also frequently ...