Essays on Classical Music

The composer, Purcell had actually created three settings of “If music be the food of love”. The very first version was published in June 1692, which can be found in “The Gentleman’s Journal”. However, it was somewhat changed or altered and then was reproduced in...

The language of conducting is a complex one, and to the casual observer can appear almost mystical; moving your hands and sound emerging. If we think of language as using words to express our ideas and our emotions, conducting as a language uses gesture to...

Music is an infinite art, there is no limit to what one can create. Man has traced the history of music further back than 1500 BC, to the most primitive forms of human music. Art has evolved throughout the years as well, through the developments...

Ancient Greece has had one of the biggest influences towards music. The Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus became the original role models to Classical and Romantic genres who have been facing Western cultural history. Most of these techniques and knowledge is still used nowadays with...

At the McMater University, there was the music concert performed at the concert hall on Tuesday, dated February 26th 2019. In this case, the concert performance was entitled Zoltan Kalman and Gary Forbes. The time in which the performance was undertaken was at 12:20 pm....

The Baroque era lasted roughly from 1600 to 1750. During this time, new composers and musical styles developed. This era shaped what music really was. There were many great composers such as J. S Bach, Vivaldi, and Schutz, Handel, and Monteverdi who contributed great works...

Starting from an early age, music has been my passion and has taken up a prominent part of my life. Beginning to learn the piano at the age of 3, my interest in music grew when I first won the championship in a junior piano...