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Normally, the tempo (that is how speed is called in music) is given at the beginning of the piece, mainly in Italian. For example: Presto (very fast), Allegro (fast), Lento (slow).

Haydn's ornamental use of non-harmony échappée notes, such as the first A-flat in the first violin part of his second string quartet in E-flat (fourth movement, b.1), gave me the idea of u...

(Answer would typically be an essay, but here are two paragraphs.)

Shostakovich’s 5^th Symphony uses a variety of timbres to enhance the conflicting emotions of despair and triumph in the...

To understand the difference between these two common scales, we need to think about where all scales come from in the first place. The typical major scale, containing seven notes is where all scales will...

Musical 'modes' are basically a set of tonalities deriving from a normal natural major scale. With C major, for example, it seems obvious that one should begin and end on C: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. But what if w...