The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.
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Classical music lovers might think they’re different from pop music stans but letters show their love and devotion run just as deep.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
In the 19th century, musical reputations travelled through invitations, conversation, print and gossip.
If students choose to listen to music while studying, they should consider music that is less distracting – and save high-energy playlists for when they don’t need to focus.
Why musical talents like this famed female composer were allowed to fade into obscurity
My project demonstrates the creative possibilities for bringing back music assumed to be lost to history.
This is an essential binge-watch for the Christmas period.
Especially when Iberian and Latin American music is in the mix, it’s not quite so easy to separate ‘classical’ and ‘popular’.
‘He is the sovereign master of his piano; he knows all its resources; he makes it speak, moan, cry, and roar under fingers of steel,’ wrote one critic at the time.
The concerto closed with a rock-inspired number celebrating human-alien hybrids
In 1999, decades after Walt Disneys’s death and nine years of production, Disney’s dream of a new Fantasia was realised with the release of Fantasia 2000.
Have you ever wondered why does the oboe begin? How is the starting note decided? With electronic tuning, is the ritual still needed?
The film highlights Maria Anna Mozart’s legacy, as well as the struggles women musicians faced in the 18th century (and continue to today).
The expressive Hungarian was a groundbreaking composer and a highly influential innovator of classical music in the 20th century.
Violins are the largest section of the orchestra, sitting front and centre of the stage performing memorable melodies. But how did the modern orchestra get this set up?
Next time you see someone at the back of the orchestra with their many percussion instruments, take a moment to thank these masters of rhythm and timbre as part of the music you love.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has now announced it was an error to cancel a performance by Jayson Gillham. Indeed, classical music has often been tied to politics.
It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.
With his highly original melodic gift, Gershwin blended jazz and classical elements to create the iconic and enduring Rhapsody in Blue.
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Music, Culture and Society, City St George's, University of London
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Musicology, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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