With just 10 seconds’ notice, star Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero takes a famous movie theme, and transforms it into an elaborate piece of Baroque counterpoint. Here’s an astonishing act of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article considers how meantone temperament relates to two important contrapuntal techniques in the early Baroque: stretto fuga and ...

Divining the exact moment of a cultural transition - when the medieval world ends, say, and the Renaissance begins - has long been the non-question historians most love to ask. Of course, we realise ...

Bach in Baltimore kicks off its 35th Anniversary Season with a concert featuring two musical forms that define Baroque Period Music. The concert opens with Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, a ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

Those who may have experienced difficulty hearing Inon Barnatan against the orchestra in Sunday’s concert in the tent should have been there Monday and Wednesday in Harris Hall. Barnatan anchored a ...

At the beginning of the Mass for Double Choir by Swiss composer Frank Martin, simple, flowing lines for the altos evoke the purity of Gregorian chant. Then the sopranos make their entrance, and the ...

Having grown up on, and studied Carnatic music in Mumbai, Shanker Krishnan discovered a new and a different world, once he was at the University of California, Berkeley (for a course in applied ...