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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...

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...

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...

The typical classical symphony can be identified through its use of standard forms and relatively simple methods of construction compared to later Romantic music.
Broadly speaking, a typical classica...

Recording and broadcasting technological progress during the twentieth century has allowed many more people to hear differing performances of all kinds of music, amongst them 'early music'. Though such mu...