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2 days ago · In the late 70s and early 80s, the ska revival in Great Britain known as 2 Tone influenced not only the music and fashion of the time, but also politics and race relations, The movement was popularized by the label 2 Tone Records which nearly every major ska band recorded for. The remarkable story o
20 hours ago · Brian Eno. Brian Peter George Eno ( / ˈiːnoʊ /; born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. [1]
4 days ago · Founding member of hit 90s band dies aged 58 after falling in shower. Join us for an exclusive interview with John Mostyn, a pivotal figure in the two-tone music scene of the West Midlands. In ...
2 days ago · Twelve-tone sets appear at the start of Op. 12/i (with repeated notes) and in some bars of Op. 12/iv, with many further examples of ten- and eleven-tone sets. Like Brahms's, Webern's (and Schoenberg's) music was marked by contrapuntal rigor, formal schemes, and systematic pitch organization long before this technique.
4 days ago · Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and ...
5 days ago · Maurice Ravel, c. 1928. Ravel was in no sense a revolutionary musician. He was for the most part content to work within the established formal and harmonic conventions of his day, still firmly rooted in tonality—i.e., the organization of music around focal tones.
4 days ago · Johannes Brahms, German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs. Brahms was the great master of symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century.
