The classical and acoustic guitars’ differences mean they lend themselves typically to different genres of music. Spanish and ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music, however they are also frequently ...

The harmonium’s story is a fascinating blend of ancient innovations, colonial influence, and cultural adaptation. While it’s ...

Here is an example of what heterophonic texture looks like in Western classical music: The renaissance ... He was able to position choirs and groups of instruments around the church and make ...

His dislike for pigeonholing present or historical composers other than Western Europeans or Northern Americans as ‘composers of the national schools/styles’ and placing them somewhere on the ...

Western classical music here is nothing new - in the late ... In Chennai (Madras) I visited a classical music shop that has been selling instruments and scores since the 1840s.