Essays on Music

Throughout the course of music history, a variety of styles have evolved and influenced one another. From the beginning of time there has been a number of different styles that are new and fresh and others that are spin offs, or an evolution of previous...

The beauty of vocal music lies within the composer’s ability to engineer personal expression as the blueprint that which the performer breathes life into through their own personal expression can only convey. The Baroque period ushered in an era of musical expression that used theoretical...

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, is renowned for being one of the most recognised and significant musicians and composers of the Baroque era. From 1703-1723, Bach spent much of his time travelling throughout central Germany seeking to improve his status of his employment together with his...

“It’s easy to play any musical instrument; all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself” – Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach had composed many musical compositions. Bach was married twice and had...

In Europe, during the seventeenth century, great reform on the culture, religion, and daily lives of Europeans occurred due to both the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648, and emerging Enlightenment ideals. The post-war period resulted in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire along with the...

With so many composers and musicians throughout the ages, there was bound to be some that were only decent, but others that were outstanding. Johann Sebastian Bach was the latter. He was a notable figure during the Baroque period and is now known as one...

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...