Essays on Classical Music

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...

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...

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...

I wish I could say I wanted to play this instrument every since I heard it for the first time on the television or I wish that I could say that I begged my parents to buy me a cello when I was younger so...

Rhetorical Analysis of the article “Aretha Franklin Is America” by: Kevin Powell August 16th, 2018, a day that will go down in history; the day we lost one of the most influential artists of all time. This is the day that Aretha Franklin passed away....

Víctor Alexander Marie Mirecki Larramat, achieved Spanish cellist and music teacher, died of old age at 72, on April7th. Víctor Mirecki was one of the most flexible and talented concert performers in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a man of...