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Do you "read" music? Not an easy question to answer, but in today's minute, Miles Hoffman discusses the visual symbols that represent sound.

For centuries, composers of classical music have been borrowing and adapting ideas and styles from popular music. Renaissance composers, for example,…

Are you one of those classical music lovers who apologize for not knowing enough? Do you worry that your love of classical music somehow doesn’t count as…

Classical music lovers tend to worry about correct pronunciation, so here are a few refreshers that I hope will be helpful.In America, people who play the…

If you have a chance to attend an orchestra concert anytime soon and one of the pieces on the program calls for a harp, make sure to watch the harpist’s…

There are many musical terms that get translated into several languages, depending on the native language of the composer who’s using the terms. The…

In 1838, ten years after the death of Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann traveled to Vienna, and while he was there he paid a visit to the graves of Schubert…

Yesterday I mentioned that it was Franz Liszt who invented the solo piano recital, and that the frenzied reactions of Liszt’s audiences became known as…

Isaac Nathan was an English Jew, born in Canterbury, in 1790, and he originally trained to be a cantor. Early on though, he switched paths and became,…

Somehow it remains a struggle to define the term “classical music.” Some people call it “concert music,” which seems a little too broad, or “art music,” a…