When teaching listening skills to my music appreciation students at Colorado Mountain College, I notice that sonata form, the pinnacle of the classical-era obsession with formal elements in music, is ...

Swann, one of the main characters in the novel, is a rich young man living in Paris who is connected with the highest Parisian aristocracy. At a musical soirée one evening he hears a sonata played by ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn. A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra. In ...