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The safest way to enter into an A-Level music exam is less about 'knowing' your set works off-by-heart but instead about being aware of the 'key points' and overall structure of your pieces and their context...

There were several key differences between the Classical and romantic era’s in relation to piano music. In the progression of the two era’s there was a marked change in the stylistic elements of the music it...

The circle of fifths is an expression used to describe the relationship between the twelve chromatic notes of the musical scale (A-G with sharps and flats in between). By using the circle of fifths, you can ...

The Baroque period was between the years 1600 and 1750. Key features included small orchestras, with often a focus on the harpsichord or string instruments, and often polyphonic textures. Example composers w...

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 as i...