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MEDITATION
Aham Prema: meaning behind the modern yoga chant
Aham Prema is one of the essential mantras recommended for daily practice by many modern yoga schools. Surprisingly, the...
PIANO
Wiegenlied: folk poem behind Brahms' Lullaby
Wiegenlied (Eng: Lullaby or Cradle Song) is one of Johannes Brahms' best-known pieces and probably the most famous...
FLUTE
Badinerie: origins of Bach's famous flute suite
Badinerie—the final movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor—is rightfully recognized as one of the...
ORCHESTRA
Pachelbel's Canon: the harmonic sequence that flooded pop music
Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon and Gigue in D, is the best-known piece by German composer Johann Pachelbel which...
OBOE
Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged by Bach and mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi
Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, also known as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, can rightfully be called a...
Music Theory
6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode
The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian...
PIANO
Kinderszenen and Schumann's metronome mystery
Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood is a set of short piano pieces written by Robert Schumann in 1838. Although these...
THEORBO
The first-ever music for solo theorbo by Kapsberger
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was an Italian composer of German origin whose creative activity occupied the transition...
Nature Sounds
8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms
Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not...
FLUTE
Early flute tuning improvements by Quantz
Johann Joachim Quantz was a famous German flautist and music theorist who had a major influence on the evolution of his...
Nature Sounds
Classical music examples imitating bees and buzzing insects
The seemingly monotonous buzz that bees emit is a developed communicative function allowing these social insects to...
Music Theory
Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music
In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This...
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Collaboration
Shakespearean characters expressed through atonality in atypical guitar sonata by Hans Werner Henze
Royal Winter Music is one of the most atypical works for classical guitar that reveals incredible possibilities of the...
PIANO
Fantasiestucke: three famous piano opuses by Robert Schumann
The influential German composer Robert Schumann repeatedly used the title Fantasiestüske as a thematic description of a...
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...
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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...
PIANO
Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music
Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist, composer and theoretical writer whose creative period fell on the transitional...
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ORCHESTRA
Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage
The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition from...
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Music Theory
Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras
From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into...
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Choir
Mass in B minor: how to separate original scores of J.S. Bach from his son's later edits?
The Mass in B minor is one of the latest works of J.S. Bach in which he set a liturgical Latin text to music. Clocking...
ORCHESTRA
The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic
The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...
VIOL
Bach and Abel: a collaboration that lived in two generations of composers
The prominent German composer and multi-instrumentalist Carl Friedrich Abel was born into an extraordinary musical...
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ORCHESTRA
Hermann of Reichenau: disabled monk who boosted art and science 1000 years ago
A remarkable figure of the 11th century, Hermann of Reichenau was a chronicler, composer, poet, and scientist who...
ORCHESTRA
The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt
Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the...
Choir
Europe worshiped this 12th-century prophet for her visions rather than her music talent
Hildegard von Bingen—German abbess and visionary mystic—was one of the most enigmatic personalities of the Middle Ages....
Organ
Mecca for organ music created by Dieterich Buxtehude in Lübeck
The picture Musical Company by Johannes Voorhout shows baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude playing the viol while his...
ORCHESTRA
Ludwig August Lebrun: the sweet genius of Mannheim
Ludwig August Lebrun (1752—1790) was a phenomenal German oboist who contributed several mellow oboe pieces to the...
Chalumeau
German maestro ordered all his music to be set on fire
Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) was one of the principal German composers of the period shared by J.S. Bach and Georg...
Band
CAN: from the mind of Czukay to the golden age of krautrock
German band Can established themselves as pioneers of experimental avant-garde by seamlessly combining their influences...
SONGWRITER
German roots of the Moon of Alabama
The Alabama Song first appeared in a collection of five poems published by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1927,...
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The History of Popular Music
Discover stories from each decade. Listen to gems from the 1960s, 1970s, and more.
Musical Modes
Explore Phrygian, Lydian, Dorian, and other modes through the harmonic analysis of popular songs.
Early Music
Read all about the formative music of the past centuries. Enjoy the regal yet easy sounds of the Baroque and Renaissance.
Indian Classical Music
Dive into the South Asian philosophy through Indian classical music. Learn about musical traditions of the Hindustani and Carnatic culture.
The Epoch of Romanticism
Get a taste of the most beloved and fruitful music period. See the personalities behind the major shift of the eras — from Classical to Romantic.
Nature Sounds
Download for free HQ soundscapes recorded in a mixed forest, including bird songs, cricket choruses, and night or afternoon thunderstorms.
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