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Continuo, also known as Basso Continuo, is associated with music of the Baroque period. Miles Hoffman discusses why the term Continuo refers not to an…

“People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my [reviews] as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that a criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading."

More today, about acoustics. Absolutely everything in the design and construction of a room, or concert hall, contributes to its acoustics… from the shape…

The members of the modern violin family are the violin, viola, cello, and double bass. These instruments are descendants of various kinds of medieval…

For a system of musical notation to be precise it must be able to represent both the pitch and the rhythm of musical sounds. In the second portion of this…

Beethoven replaced the minuet in his four-movement pieces with the scherzo. Scherzo means “joke,” in Italian, but in Beethoven’s scherzos you won’t…

Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel were roughly contemporaries, and as two of the greatest figures in late 19th and early 20th century French music, they…

People often wonder, “Which pieces by contemporary composers will be familiar to classical music lovers fifty… a hundred… two hundred years from now”?…

Sergei Rachmaninoff was an example of one of the great “types” in the history of classical music: the virtuoso performer who was also an important…

In the letters of great composers, certain themes come up again and again, especially the composers’ struggles to get their works performed, and the…