Musicon / Musical education / Classical music – It reaches depths that everyday music just doesn’t
The distinction should be made, not so much between classical and pop musics, but between music created primarily as an entertainment and music that attempts to express more profound human issues. There’s nothing wrong with entertainment. We all love a good song. But it isn’t the only ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Suite – A set of dances
The suite is a set of pieces in the same key, but contrasted in character, based upon certain admired dance-forms. Originally it was a set of dances and nothing more, but in the hands of the composers the dances underwent many modifications, some of them to the obvious detriment of their national ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Structure of a Symphony
The symphony, as a rule, is a composition for orchestra made up of four parts, or movements, which are not only related to each other by a bond of sympathy established by the keys chosen but also by their emotional contents. Without this higher bond the unity of the work would be merely ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Sonata – Concerto – Symphony
Symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos for solo instruments and orchestra, as well as the various forms of chamber music, such as trios, quartets, and quintets for strings, or pianoforte and strings, are but different expressions of the idea which is best summed up in the word sonata. What ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Musical education / Recognising rhythmical figures
Schindler relates that when once he asked Beethoven to tell him what the F minor and the D minor (Op. 31, No. 2) sonatas meant, he received for an answer only the enigmatical remark: “Read Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest.’” Many a student and commentator has since read the ::More
