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Orchestra
Capriol Suite: early dances arranged for modern orchestra by Peter Warlock

The Capriol Suite is one of the most popular works by the 20th century English composer Philip Arnold Heseltine who…

October 15, 2020
Classical Guitar
Moreno Torroba as the first-ever Spanish non-guitarist who composed for solo guitar

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer adored by his contemporaries largely for his stage works, especially the…

September 13, 20207 comments
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
Jugalbandi
Merging traditions of Indian classic in jugalbandi duets of Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna was an iconic composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose contributions to the…

August 16, 2020
Review
The 2020 guide to research of Granville Bantock's life and music

Published by Clemson University Press in 2020, Granville Bantock (1868–1946) A Guide to Research by Dr. John C…

August 13, 2020
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…

August 9, 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
Violin
Zigeunerweisen: folk tunes meet the Csardas dance in Pablo de Sarasate's most popular work

Zigeunerweisen is one of the best-known violin works based on Hungarian folk melodies and Romani music motifs as…

July 30, 20201 comment
Orchestra
The transcendental experience behind classical orchestras conducted by Sergiu Celibidache

Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian composer, musical theorist, and one of the most innovative conductors of the 20th…

July 16, 20202 comments
Classical Guitar
Capricho Arabe: the first composition of Francisco Tarrega became his epitaph

Capricho Arabe is the most popular work of the iconic Spanish guitarist Francisco Tárrega who initiated the revival of…

July 5, 2020
Violin
Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole brought to life by the best violinists of the 20th century

Symphonie Espagnole is an iconic work by the French composer Edouard Lalo, which is believed to have launched the…

June 25, 2020
Orchestra
The Oceanides: the deeply impressionistic tone poem by Sibelius

The magnificent mythology of ancient Greece describes the Oceanids as water nymphs whose life and functions are…

June 10, 2020
Classical Guitar
Tango En Skai: light party atmosphere of Roland Dyens’ challenging guitar work

Tango En Skai is a popular guitar work by Tunisian-born French composer Roland Dyens whose contribution to the…

May 31, 20206 comments
Double bass
Giovanni Bottesini as most influential contrabass maestro of the Romanticism

Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian composer and legendary contrabassist of the Romantic period whose work for solo…

May 20, 2020
Music Theory
Picardy third: cadence for a happy ending in classical music and popular songs

In musical theory, the term Picardy third is used to refer to a special way of ending a minor piece with a major chord…

May 13, 2020
Classical Guitar
Innovative tremolo technique by Johann Kaspar Mertz and his contribution to terz guitar

Johann Kaspar Mertz was an Austro-Hungarian composer and outstanding guitarist of the Romantic era who is credited with…

April 26, 2020
Mandolin
Vivaldi's two mandolin concertos as the core of classical mandolin music

Although the mandolin in its modern design can be traced from the second half of the Baroque period, its role in…

April 22, 20201 comment
Synthesizer
Progressive rock adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's piano concerto features innovative electronic drums

One of the works of the iconic Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera went far beyond the attention of the classical…

April 12, 20204 comments
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
Orchestra
Grosse Fuge: Armageddon or the birth of atonality featured in Beethoven’s last major work

The Grosse Fuge is one of Beethoven’s most controversial works which he finished shortly before his death while being…

April 1, 20201 comment
Orchestra
The didjeridu and Indigenous Australian chants interpolated into classical music by Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Sculthorpe was an Australian composer who sought to express the traditional Indigenous culture and unique nature…

March 25, 2020
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
Oboe
The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer whose formative years fell on the mid-1950s when revolutionary musical…

March 8, 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
Marching Band
Entrance of the Gladiators: military march by Julius Fučík found world fame as a screamer music for circuses

Entrance of the Gladiators is one of the world's most famous marches which has cemented itself in public awareness by…

February 26, 2020
Orchestra
The instrumental re-imagining of vocal music by Gerald Finzi, a countryside composer and apple grower

Gerald Finzi was an English composer whose work and lifestyle were immersed in the culture of his country, remaining…

February 23, 2020
Music Theory
Microtonality: the variety of approaches to microtonal music in world cultures

In theory, microtonal music describes a piece that contains one or more intervals measuring below a semitone. Although…

February 19, 2020
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