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The literal meaning of a capella in Italian is “as in the chapel,” or “in the style of the chapel.” And what has the chapel got to do with it?

A song cycle is a set of songs whose texts—often by a single poet—are linked by a common subject, mood, or story. Though the songs of the cycle are all…

When it comes to the history of the guitar, the only thing that’s certain… is that nothing is certain.

To make an arrangement of a musical composition is to rewrite the composition for a new set of musical forces—to rewrite a wind quintet for string…

The term a capella is one of the more familiar Italian terms we run into in the music world. When applied to vocal music, a capella simply means “without…

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