In all probability, music has played an important role in the lifecycle of humans perhaps even before we could speak. Significant evidence has been discovered that very early man developed primitive ...

No “classical music about animals” list is complete without this fourteen-movement work for chamber ensemble, including two pianos and a variety of other orchestral instruments, such as the violin, ...

Franz Liszt gained a formidable and deserved reputation during his long life, as a virtuoso pianist and composer. For many pianists studying and performing the music of Liszt presents one of the most ...

Music Therapy is an established psychological clinical intervention, delivered by HCPC-registered music therapists to help people whose lives have been affected by injury, illness or disability by ...

In a concise survey of my favourite Handel pieces, it would be impossible not to begin with The Messiah. This is probably the cornerstone of Handel’s substantial output and one of the most popular ...

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This epic and extremely famous piece comes from Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle. This piece comes from the second of the four operas in the cycle and underscores the opening of Act Three. The Valkyries ...

This article crosses many borders in a search for compositions that have been specifically written for that iconic popular music instrument, the electric guitar. The instrument itself came into ...

Of all the celebrated works by this great composer, this Piano Sonata ranks high amongst them. It was composed in 1801 at a time when Beethoven was in love and hopeful. From the dedication, Beethoven ...

In this article, I am going to take a brief look at the life and works of the composer and pianist, George Gershwin. Gershwin is perhaps best known these days as a songwriter, working as he did for ...

A dulcimer is a stringed folk instrument which basically comes in two different varieties: the hammered dulcimer – which has strings stretched over a sounding board with a trapezoidal shape, generally ...

The tambourine is probably one of the easiest and most fun musical instruments to play anywhere in the world. If you have any rhythm at all, and sometimes even if you don’t, you, too, can play a ...