Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Do you ever learn what you think is a new fact, but then you realise you knew about it all along? That ...

Dvořák’s chamber music has received surprisingly little attention from Anglo-American music theorists of the modern era, despite a well-established place in the concert repertoire. Close readings of ...

Where does the word ‘sonata’ come from, and what does it mean? We take a deep dive to explore its meaning and evolution. However, some Baroque sonatas in were written for solo instruments without it, ...

The attraction of music by Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) partially stems from the expressive interweaving of multiple nineteenth- and twentieth-century influences. Part I of this article documents how the ...

Symphony, concerto, sonata... what’s the difference? The main distinctions lie in the roles of soloists, and their place in, or in front, of the orchestra. Even the most beloved works, imprinted on ...