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Miles Hoffman discusses the Coda- a word, which in Italian, means tail. The Coda is a tail or passage added to the end of a movement to provide a fitting…

Stradivarius is the Latinized last name of Antonio Stradivari, often regarded as history’s greatest violin maker. Stradivari was Italian, but on the paper…

When a percussionist says, “I’m playing bells in this piece,” he means he’s playing the glockenspiel. Glocke is the German word for bell, and Glockenspiel…

Sensible composers don’t want their audiences to be bored. A piece of music must take us on a journey, but we won’t stay along for the ride if the music…

The careers of many famous musicians began with victories in international competitions. Béla Bartók, however, once said that “Competitions are for…

Host Miles Hoffman discusses the different variations on the story of Romeo and Juliet on this Valentine's Day themed Minute with Miles.A Minute with…

The convention of key, of pieces of music being "in a key," has been one of the fundamental organizing principles of western music since the 1600's. In…

The Rondo is a musical form that almost always starts with a lively or cheerful tune called the Rondo theme which serves as a refrain which occurs again…

I find it fascinating that many of the greatest composers of the 19th century—composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms,…

You could write a book about the life of the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann– and as it turns out, Telemann himself wrote three – three separate…