The sixth video explores 20th Century music and the composers include Florence Price, Shostakovich and Debussy.

Here we are eight years into a new century, high time to start looking back at the last century and asking what the hell that was about. Critic Alex Ross, in his best-selling book The Rest Is ...

20th-century music is defined by new, innovative approaches to tone and instrumentation, as much as it is by composers and musicians seeking the most melodious, comforting music possible to try to ...

From Krzysztof Penderecki to Arvo Pärt, the great composers of Central Europe have used music to convey the ineffable and the divine.

Quincy Jones, producer of several of the best-selling albums of all time, died at his home in Bel Air on Sunday as per his publicist. Though his work covered all genres, Jones will forever be best ...

No two composers of the 20th century stand at such diametrically opposing positions and it is a wry coincidence that both should have anniversaries this year — Shostakovich (1906-75) the 50th ...

The concept of background or “ambient” music has a long pedigree. The idea was coined by one of France’s most eccentric ...

Harmony and tonality - Edexcel Early 20th century - Harmony and tonality Music contains notes in succession (melody) or notes in combination. When notes are played at the same time it is called ...

Featuring pieces by 20th and 21st century composers, Spokane Symphony's next Masterworks concert is jazzy, rhythmic and uniquely American By E.J. Iannelli ...