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The concerto – part I.

In a series of articles we will discover what is the origin of the concerto as musical genre. What does it mean and how Beethoven worked in this art form? What is tutti, what is solo? Why concerto was the show of real Masters? Let’s find out! The first form of a concerto music has origins in the early 1500s. …

Sonata is a compositional method and a term we often hear in classical music. In this article we learn the basics about sonatas and sonata form in music. Sonata is a composition method, most often for a solo instrument or small instrumental group. The Latin word sonare means ‘to sound’ and its opposite pair is the cantata, ‘to sing’. The …