Stephen Johnson gets to grips with classical music’s technical terms STACCATO IS ONE of those musical terms that’s entered common parlance. And on this occasion common parlance seems to have got it broadly right. When musicians and non-musicians use the word today […]
Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries the term sonata, from the Italian “to sound”, had no precise meaning when applied to music. Depending on where and when it was used, it could imply a collection of dance pieces; a lute […]
