Music has been part of human culture for thousands of years. The oldest instrument to be discovered date back 40,000 years. Music is central to our life because of its unique, positive effects on the individual and the group. You may be learning the piano for fun but read on and you will discover the bonus features …
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the sound of the piano could be modified or enriched in the timbre by using pedal-operated mechanisms that gave the effects of "heavenly voices" and "bassoon", or with machinery equipped with plates and bells, or with a soft mallet that hitting the soundboard caused the bass drum effect.
In 1938 John Cage was commissioned for a short ballet. Not being able for financial reasons …
At the end of 1808, so much snow fell in Vienna that, on the evening of December 22nd, the city seems to have disappeared in a silence that forces to prepare for what is about to happen.
In the Theater an der Wien it freezes, but at the Christmas concert there is not a free place left.
On the piano sits the master himself: Ludwig van Beethoven.
Although he is only 38 years …
The scientific theory developed in 1993 by physicists Gordon Shaw and Frances Rauscher that "Listening to Mozart's music makes you smarter" is still controversial. It is certain, however, that the relationship between sound and melody of the Austrian master increases psychophysical well-being.
The language of music is very similar to that of life: the rhythm, the harmony, the intention with …
In the nineteenth century the Gothic style was identified with the Baroque period.
The Germanic peoples, who had always been subjugated by Greek-Roman culture, rebelled in the eighteenth century, claiming their past: the Gothic. They restore the Gothic buildings, invent the Gothic novel, invent the neoGothic that continues until the threshold of the twentieth century.
Music also wants to engage with this current, but the problem is that the Gothic composers were …