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Program music, as Miles Hoffman explains in this episode, is instrumental music that attempts to tell a story or render a scene or picture in a realistic…

“Music is a medium through which certain unnamable experiences of life are exquisitely conveyed through equivalent sensations for the ear…"

The minuet represents one of the longest lasting dance crazes in history. Miles Hoffman discusses when the Minuet became a craze and how it achieved such…

Composers during the Baroque period wrote plenty of chamber music, especially trio sonatas, and sonatas for such high-voiced instruments as the violin and…

The members of the violin family—the violin, viola, cello, and double bass—are made of wood. But on any one instrument you may find four or even five…

Ears can be trained. Which is why every music school in the world offers ear-training courses. I suppose it should go without saying, but for musicians…

If you’d like a remarkable example of the genius of Leonard Bernstein, I recommend that you listen – or listen again – to the song “Cool,” from West Side…

One of the reasons Mozart’s operas seem so profound to us is because they’re so true to life, and perhaps especially true to life’s complexities and…

When it comes to Spanish composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the three most important names are certainly Isaac Albeniz, Enrique…

In 1918 the music critic Olin Downes published a book called The Lure of Music. It’s a collection of biographical sketches of famous composers, and it…