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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,…

March 18, 2023
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…

March 8, 2023
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 best…

June 30, 2022
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…

July 30, 2021
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…

May 21, 2021
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…

March 27, 2021
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…

January 10, 2021
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…

September 10, 2020
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…

August 23, 2020
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…

August 6, 2020
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…

May 6, 2020
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…

April 5, 202013 comments
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…

March 22, 2020
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…

March 4, 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
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
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…

October 13, 20191 comment
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…

September 3, 20191 comment
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…

August 24, 20194 comments
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…

August 13, 2019
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…

July 17, 2019
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…

April 7, 20191 comment
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…

March 12, 2019
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…

January 15, 2019
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…

December 25, 2018
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…

December 7, 2018
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…

November 10, 2018
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…

October 2, 2018
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…

September 7, 2018
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,…

August 27, 2018