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Lied (plural: Lieder) is the quintessential genre of German Romanticism, whose key aesthetic ideas are found in their most concentrated form in the Lieder of Beethoven, Schubert...

There is a small journey to make before you can get up to harmonising Bach Chorales. I would first recommend purchasing a (cheap) copy of Riemenschneider complete Bach chorales, and taking the time (2 min...

Sonata form is a structure containing three main parts that emerged in mid-18th Century classical music. The three parts are called the exposition, development, and recapitulation, coming in that order. I...

Sonata form is often found in music of the Classical era, for example in the string quartets or symphonic movements by composers such as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Sonata form is essentially a three-pa...

The harmonic elements that are common in 20th century music are the regular use of dissonance, and a lack of classical chord progressions. This dissonance is also unlikely to be prepared as seen with musi...