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Minimalist music is a style of composition developed in the 1960s in the USA, as a rejection of the atonal style of other experimental composers of the time. The most important composers of this style wer...

Examples:Sequencing software: using MIDI or audio files, composers can synthesise sound on a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to create musicDigital sound effects: synthesised sounds can be manipulated usi...

One of the most important musical feature of the Baroque era was the use of harpsichord. Indeed, harpsichord is a keyboard instrument, which is very similar to a piano. Some of its important features are ...

For the unheard essay question, you must try and repeat the unknown piece to one of your set works. The question will already outline certain categories to listen out for such as melody, harmony and textu...

Sonata form could be described as a larger, more complicated ternary (ABA) form. It has three sections - the exposition, the development and the recapitulation. In the exposition there are two main musica...