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Classical Guitar
Matteo Carcassi's guitar etudes of early Romanticism are still relevant for teaching classical guitar

Matteo Carcassi was an Italian guitar composer whose creative period coincided with the expansion of classical music…

February 16, 20206 comments
Sarod
Sakhawat Hussain's sarod cast a magical spell rooted in the Afghan rubab traditions

Sakhawat Hussain Khan was an Indian musician whose outstanding performing technique on sarod could serve as a starting…

February 12, 2020
Nature Sounds
Crickets choir: musical examples imitating rhythmic patterns of chorusing insects

One of the most mesmerizing sounds in nature is the bizarre rhythmic patterns generated by chorusing insects. While…

February 9, 20201 comment
Piano
Scandalous piano experiments by George Antheil shocked early avant-garde scene

George Antheil was an American pianist and composer whose extraordinary works are mainly associated with the avant…

February 5, 2020
Piano
Germaine Tailleferre as a member of Les Six composers group guided by Jean Cocteau

Germaine Tailleferre was a gifted pianist and composer whose role in the search for new French musical aesthetics of…

February 3, 2020
Orchestra
Franz Berwald: iconic composer of Scandinavian Romanticism was forced to earn a living as an orthopedist

Franz Berwald was a Swedish composer whose works were not particularly popular during his lifetime but who, decades…

January 29, 2020
Guitar
The art of Caribbean rhythms by the Garifuna Collective

Garifuna music is closely related to the culture of the Garifuna people living primarily on the Caribbean coast of…

January 26, 2020
Orchestra
Сontemporary orchestration of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna was an outstanding Italian conductor and composer whose music was mostly associated with avant-garde and…

January 22, 2020
Album
Surrealistic Pillow as the ultimate psychedelic experience pioneered by Jefferson Airplane

Released in 1967, Surrealistic Pillow was Jefferson Airplane's second album which not only set a departure point for…

January 19, 2020
Classical Guitar
The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works

Luigi Legnani was a guitar composer whose most active years coincided with the rise of the Romantic period which was…

January 15, 2020
Music Theory
Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

Major and minor modes are the most used diatonic scales in classical and popular music due to their versatile structure…

January 12, 2020
Technologies
Gauhar Jaan: India's first-ever recorded musician

The first-ever recording of Indian music was made by Fred Gaisberg, an American musician and engineer traveling around…

January 7, 20201 comment
Songwriter
Traditions of Malian music spread worldwide through Afel Bocoum and Damon Albarn collaboration

The famous Malian songwriter Afel Bocoum began his musical career in the 1960s at the age of thirteen when he joined…

January 5, 2020
Film
Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the…

January 1, 2020
Violin
Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

Ernest Chausson was a composer who, despite his rather humble body of work, still played a crucial role in the history…

December 29, 2019
Poetry
The best Qawwali lyrics performed by prominent singers of the century

Phool Khil Jaaye by Abida Parveen and Asrar Shah Mere dil ki banjar zameen pe Oh maula Mere dil ki banjar zameen pe…

December 23, 2019
Piano
The avant-garde tango by Horacio Salgán that shocked audiences in the 1950s

Horacio Salgán was an Argentinean pianist who took the concept of how tango should sound and flipped it on its head by…

December 22, 2019
Orchestra
The first English musical criticism written by Charles Avison argued that music evokes purely positive emotions

The fascination with the innermost working of the human mind and the nature of its response to certain triggers have…

December 18, 2019
Poetry
Peter Sinfield: the songwriter whose lyrics embellished the formative prog rock albums of the 1970s

Peter Sinfield is an iconic songwriter who has written for most influential albums of the prog-rock genre released…

December 15, 20193 comments
Classical Guitar
Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher…

December 11, 20191 comment