Among several historic musical anniversaries celebrated this year—including the centenary of “Rhapsody in Blue”—an easily overlooked one especially deserves mention, since it marked an artistic ...

The spikey, angular music sometimes called "12-tone music" invented by Arnold Schoenberg remains a challenge to the ears of many listeners today. But before Schoenberg turned away from traditional ...

For Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, 57, life has by his own testimony been “one long suffer.” The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily ...

The 21st is the second century for music conservatories and contemporary concert composers to put forth the notion that atonal music is preferable to the tonal music that defined western civilization ...

Editor’s note: Arnold Schoenberg was born on this day in 1874. 145 years later, we look back at the genius of the Austrian Jewish composer. What happens in the mind of a genius? Mozart’s mind was ...

I’m a high school music student. I sit, barely twitching, as a foreign-sounding, abrasive, downright unpleasant mash of sounds unfolds around me; they pelt me and the rest of the innocent audience for ...

In Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino—The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

Guitar aficionados nationwide have known Dave Creamer for decades and for those familiar with his work, its no surprise that George Benson called Creamer "Absolutely the most fantastic guitar player ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Sheeran, brother of the pop star Ed Sheeran, discusses how he translated microtonal electronic music for a chamber orchestra. By ...