We've broken down the 19th century — "the romantic era" — into 10-year pieces, examining the most significant music from each. Inevitably, priority is given to works that we still revere today.

Technology has produced marked changes in daily life, and music is no exception, but it's the simple and genuine nature of early 19th century music in rural New England homes and villages that ...

From the commodious pleasure gardens of 19th century London to the well-appointed studios of '70s rock, this generous history concentrates on sheet music, but concludes that in pop, composition ...

And surprisingly, it has its roots not in post-war popular recorded music, but in the classical concert halls of 19th -Century Europe, where an outrageously talented young Hungarian named Franz ...

Courtesy of Brahms, Some 19th-Century Pop Share full article Ian Bostridge, the English tenor, offering a sampler of the songs of Brahms at Alice Tully Hall, accompanied by the pianist Julius Drake.

These 15th-century female musicians are clearly in grave medical danger. Sotheby's London/ Wikimedia Commons Today, we associate music with emotion and artistry.

A new book argues pop music was born in the mid-19th century If you think the genre started with Elvis or the Beatles, think again. May 5th 2022. Share. Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop.

Music was used as a form of moral therapy in 19th-century asylums. I woke up this morning with a song in my head. It was Booker T and the MGs' "Time is Tight," a really catchy track that put me in ...

Derek B. Scott, Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna (Oxford University Press, 2008), especially the chapter ‘A Revolution on ...

Technology has produced marked changes in daily life, and music is no exception, but it's the simple and genuine nature of early 19th century music in rural New England homes and villages that ...