Emerging in the early 1970s, British folk-rock band Steeleye Span helped shape the sound of modern folk music by blending traditional tunes with electric instruments and contemporary production techniques. Known for their innovative arrangements and powerful vocal harmonies, the band has produced endu...
The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval Context to Modern Revival (review) Like few other pre-baroque music genres, the polyphonic mass in the late Middle Ages has attracted a massive amount of scholarly attention ever since the early days of active musicological research in the...
During the baroque period of great theatrical energy, and a dramatic use of light, scale, and balance, French artists adopted Italian Renaissance ideas but made them their own; by the end of the seventeenth century, France had began to take the lead in European art. Early eighteenth-century ...
the sonata was of central importance to nineteenth-century German organists. The genre of the organ sonata began in the High Baroque, with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, generally constructed in the fast-slow-fast, three-movement layout. Felix...
One of the great moments from English opera, this devastating aria comes at the end of the masterpiece of Baroque composerHenry Purcell. It’s heard as Dido’s life comes to an end after a separation from her beloved. Over a repeated ground bass, the music is full of emotion and anguish...
A while ago I acquired a recording call "Beatles Go Baroque". It's interesting how 1 orchestra took modern Pop songs and play them in the style of Bach, Handel & Vivaldi. Found sound recordings online: So far nobody mentioned early music were mostly religious music, especia...
All of this — the worldwide concerts, the big-deal collaborations, the multimedia domination — shows that Rolling Loud is much more than a music festival. It has become an event, the founders say, that many artists plan their whole year — and their release schedules — around. The name...
Music knows no borders:countertenor Reginald Mobley on the music of Ignatius Sancho, spirituals as Early Music and the importance of diversity -interview An evening of wit, delight and magic:Silent Slapsticksat The Ritzy with Brixton Chamber Orchestra -film review ...
Often hailed as the first great jazz soloist, Sidney Bechet's pioneering work on both the clarinet and soprano saxophone made him an iconic figure in the early history of jazz. With an intensely passionate, bluesy playing style and a vibrato-infused tone, Bechet's impro...
Early Baroque Lute Michael Praetorius, Syntagma musicum II 1618–19 The lute's seductive appeal, combined with the challenge of depicting it correctly, was as strong among Dutch painters as it had been for previous generations of European painters. Examination of Dutch genre works in particular ...