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 […]
“From BBC Magazine” It may have been the big Romantic repertoire that made Lang Lang his fame and fortune, but in his early days it was Mozart that kept him grounded. Now, he tells Jessica Duchen, the time has come […]
El año 1810 unifica generacionalmente a una serie de autores nacidos en torno a él: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Félix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) y Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Este «trébol de cuatro hojas» simboliza el núcleo central del Romanticismo […]
Durante el siglo xviii se había ido conformando el «público» tal y como se entiende en el sentido moderno del término. El incremento en el interés por el arte, en una actitud imitativa de la nobleza, produjo durante todo el […]
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 […]
