Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive. In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the ...

MUSA 2201 Medieval-Renaissance Music MUSA 2203 Music of the Baroque MUSA 2205 Music of the Classic Period MUSA 2207 Music of the Romantic Era * With the permission of the director of undergraduate ...

Four beloved National Music Festival mentors return to Kent County Nov. 17 to present an exciting performance as part of the ...

Larson, Choice 'These essays make clear that Austen can be read - and re-read - productively within the communities of women writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. … the collection ...

Janusz Olejniczak, the distinguished Polish pianist and teacher who performed the piano parts in the Oscar-winning 2002 film The Pianist, has died at the age of 72, his family confirmed on Monday. He ...

In 1878 a young Manhattan patrician named Templeton Strong turned down a proffered job with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe ...

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.

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You have to take your Stetson hat off to The Late Late Show Country Music Special (RTÉ One, Friday, 9.35pm). In just a few years it has become a beloved Late Late institution – not quite up ...