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The southern cricket frog or southeastern cricket frog (Acris gryllus) is a small hylid frog native to the Southeastern United States.

Lyrical means “songlike.” The word comes from “lyre,” or lyra, the name of the instrument that the ancient Greeks played to accompany the singing of their…

The Concertmaster is the violinist who occupies the first chair of the first violin section of an orchestra. Miles Hoffman explains.A Minute with Miles- a…

The aria - a musical form that’s a kind of song, but more elaborate and vocally demanding than the pieces we usually call songs. The development of opera in Italy in the 1600's is what brought the aria to glory.

The word sonata comes from the Italian sonare, an old form of suonare, which means “to sound,” or “to play,” as in “to play an instrument.” And indeed a…

The era of Hayden, Mozart, and Beethoven, roughly from 1775 to 1820 is know to musical historians as the Classical Period following the Baroque Period.…

Here's a little secret: harpist don't use their pinkies even though they have 47 strings to play. In today's episode, Miles Hoffman describes how the Harp…

Here are a few words that one great composer wrote about another—and I wonder if you can guess who was writing about whom. Ready? “Once again one finds…

Today is the birthday of the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick, born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1854. Chadwick is one of those composers who…

Don Drysdale was a great pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but you don’t usually hear his name mentioned without hearing the name of another Dodger,…