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Symphony and Orchestra
Symphony and Orchestra | Why These 2 Terms Mean Completely Different Things

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Symphony and Orchestra

Image source: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, photograph by DistinctArt, June 15, 2020. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.       1. Why Do These Two Words Sound Interchangeable in English? In English, symphony and orchestra are often used in ways that seem very similar. … Read more

Classical Music String Quartet
Western Music History ⑤ Classical Music (1750–1820) | Balance, Clarity, and the Logic of Form

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Classical Music String Quartet

From the mid-18th to the early 19th century, the Classical period emerged as the era in which the aesthetics of balance, clarity and structural proportion became most fully realized in Western classical music. With the spread of Enlightenment thought and the rise of the bourgeois class, music expanded beyond courts and churches into public concert … Read more

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