Fantasia

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ORCHESTRA

Greensleeves: the folk melody behind Vaughan Williams' Fantasia

Greensleeves is one of the best-known English folk melodies, first published in 1580 as a broadside ballad titled A Newe...
Classical Guitar

5 flamenco guitar pieces of Joaquín Turina as performed by the best guitarists of the 20th century

Joaquín Turina is considered to be one of the most influential Spanish composers of the 20th century, especially for his...
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...
Vihuela

Orphénica Lyra: the largest collection of vihuela music introduced by Miguel de Fuenllana

Vihuela is a Renaissance-era musical instrument similar to a modern mini guitar. It is believed that the first vihuelas...
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... 4 comments
Vihuela

The first known collection for the vihuela inspired early guitar repertoire

It is fair to call the guitar one of the leading world instruments in terms of popular demand which is only slightly...
Classical Guitar

Guitar virtuoso Napoléon Coste suffered from acute piano phobia

The creative life of the brilliant French guitarist and composer Napoléon Coste happened to blossom during the Romantic... 1 comment
PIANO

The Orpheus of Amsterdam: the joyful nickname for organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

The ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’ was the nickname lovingly given to Jan Pietersz Sweelinck (1562–1621), an organist, composer...
PIANO

Influential music teacher Nadia Boulanger considered her music worthless

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was conductor, composer, and one of the most influential teachers of musical... 1 comment