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A tone row is a series of notes in a fixed order, like a melody or riff but with no rhythmic values assigned to the pitches. Most commonly it contains all 12 tones of the chromatic scale just once, such a...

Debussy's 'The Little Shepherd' is a short piano miniature which juxtaposes moments of graceful, soloistic monophony with harmonically colourful passages of melody-dominated homophony. The key of this mus...

The Romantic period emerged after the Classical period and preceded the 20th century modern era: the start and end dates are slightly up for debate, but roughly speaking, it began around 1800 and ended ar...

The character Bosola is a man who has suffered unfairly at the hands of those he has worked for, leading him to become a man who can no longer trust those around him and leaving him with very little compa...

Musical notation has been around for a long time. The ancient Greeks had toyed around with the idea long before the Middle Ages. However, in the early part of the medieval period after the collapse of the...