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

The little snippet of music you just heard, our “theme music,” is from the first movement, the Prelude, of the Partita Number 3 in E Major for solo violin…

Partita is a synonym for “suite,” and the Baroque suite, which is to say the suite in the time of Bach, consists of a set of dance movements.

Partita is a synonym for “suite,” and the Baroque suite, which is to say the suite in the time of Bach, consists of a set of dance movements.

“Music…embraces at once the real and the ideal… "

"Music…embraces at once the real and the ideal…"

"Music…embraces at once the real and the ideal…"

Stradivarius is the Latinized last name of Antonio Stradivari, often regarded as history’s greatest violin maker.

Several centuries ago, it was common for violin makers to print their names in Latin on the paper labels they glued in their instruments. That’s what the great Italian violin maker Antonio Stradivari did, and that’s why an instrument made by Stradivari is known as a Stradivarius.

Stradivarius is the Latinized last name of Antonio Stradivari, often regarded as history’s greatest violin maker.