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St Cecilia and Music: True or false?

Why does music require a 'patron saint'? What are the...

This quartet, which was composed in 1810 or 1811 and...

What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful...

Musical notation is both inexact and changeable; the assumptions of...

The major triad is considered the foundation of tonal music...

'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...

Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...

A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.

Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace (1953) was an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel begun during WWII. He saw it as a personal interpretation of the novel.

What’s the future of listening? What will happen to the ways we give attention to music in the future?