Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music. By Jan Swafford.Basic; 321 pages; $28. JAN SWAFFORD’S new book, “Language of the Spirit”, is a self-guided tour. “When a piece [of music] or ...

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

Although it is repetitive, simple and rather short, this is an astonishing piece of piano music, written by music genius Bach. He is famous for many other wonderful keyboard compositions, but this one ...

There's a song on one of my CDs that samples a very well known classical piece, and I'd just like to know what it is.<BR><BR>(edit: clip removed, mystery solved)<BR><BR>It's one of those classical ...

I really don’t mean to get all Music Appreciation 101 on you, but I need to ask: Have you listened to classical lately? On purpose, I mean. A local string quartet playing Vivaldi during cocktail hour ...

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Are you ready to learn some easy but beautiful piano pieces that sound impressive? Start from some we have picked here. What are most beautiful and most impressive piano compositions? Well, it is of ...