Asian composers who write in Western classical musical forms, like symphonies and operas, tend to have a few things in common. Many learned European styles from an early age, and finished their ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his “60 Year Of Music World Tour”, in Milan, Italy.

For those who love Western classical music, it’s a godsend. But as a global app, Apple Music Classical barely scratches the surface.

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

In the new Oxford History of Western Music, ... December 7, 2004 • In 1685, within a period of eight months, three master composers were born: Scarlatti, Handel and Bach.

Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned “The X-Files ” theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s, died ...

So, when director Edward Berger asked his regular composer, Volker Bertelmann, to write a score for his antiwar drama All Quiet on the Western Front, he told him to break all the rules. More from ...

A composer will write music that’s comfortable – and possible – for certain voice types to sing, based on their range. The timbre of the instrument (or voice) can come into this again: for some ...

History, from ancient times to the present, shows us how this “container” for music lived on. By 300 B.C.E. the Bible’s Old Testament had a Greek translation called the Septuagint.

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his “60 Year Of Music World Tour”, in Milan, Italy.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died.