The  opus 28 preludes by Chopin were first published in 1839, a date that coincides with the winter of  1838-1839 in which he spent in Major...

After years of being copied out and passed from musician to musician, Bach's Well Tempered Clavier  was published in 1801, almost 100 ye...

The meaning of a word or phrase can change over time, with the word symphony  being an example.  A word with Greek roots, the meaning with...

As the word implies, the musical prelude began as a extemporized piece that acted as an introduction to another work, most of them for key...

The history of the term ballad begins with a type of French medieval narrative song which was generally danced to. Ballet derives from the ...

The word impromptu by definition implies something that is spontaneous, improvised. That definition does not really imply in music, for the...

Camille Saint-Saëns was an example of the consummate musician as he was a performer, conductor, composer and musicologist. Music was not his...