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Fame, they say, is fleeting. I recently came across a piece of music by a German composer named Johann Friedrich Fasch. Ever heard of him? I hadn’t. But…

I’m grateful for advances in neuroscience, and for many reasons glad that every day we know more about how the brain works. But for all the studies of left brains, right brains, and neuron networks, some things will remain mysteries, and there’s no way around it.

What’s the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Well, I’ve heard it said that a violin has strings, and a fiddle has “strangs.” But in reality,…

Allegro, Andante, and Adagio are all tempo markings; in today's episode, Miles Hoffman discusses more markings used by composers to describe how musicians…

In the final episode of this series, Miles Hoffman talks about the language which describes tempo markings and why Italian terminology is the generally…

When hearing a piece of music, it's often fun to try to guess in which period of music it was written. Miles Hoffman discusses how instrumentation and…

Arias are the pieces for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment that are found in operas, oratorios, and cantatas. They’re songs, in a sense, but they tend to be more musically elaborate and vocally demanding than the kinds of pieces we usually call songs.

Host Miles Hoffman discusses the Baroque Era in Classical music which is recognized to have been from 1600 to 1750. The year 1750 serves as the end point…

Host Miles Hoffman addresses the etymology of the word Concerto.A Minute with Miles - a production of ETV Radio made possible by the JM Smith Corporation.

Jean Sibelius was a fascinating man. He was born the year the American Civil War ended and he died in the year of Sputnik. He was a prolific composer—in…