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The opening of the Spring concerto depicts the arrival of this joyous season through the bright key of E major. The basso continuo plays a tonic pedal to reinforce tonic and dominant harmony, typical of t...

In the first movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony, he continously succeeds to create drama through his use of varied and regularly changing texture. In the introduction to the symphony, Shostakovich in...

A tritone is an interval between two notes in a diatonic scale that is exactly half an octave. It's characterised by the interval of a diminished fifth, or augmented fourth. As an example of a tritone, ta...

A Tierce de Picarie ('Picardy Third') is a surprise major chord at the end of a piece. Whilst the piece is predominantly in a minor mode, the final chord (which will always be the tonic in music of this ...

GCSE and A-Level papers (and university degrees) tend to focus on composers such as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven because of the impact they each had on subsequent generations. Each one had a profound impac...