A fugue is a contrapuntal composition built from iterations of and responses to a single musical subject.

A fugue is a contrapuntal composition built from iterations of and responses to a single musical subject.

English composers adopted the Italian madrigal and developed it into a native form.

Which composer developed a sonata style that has been continuously valued as strikingly individual and meaningful?

The symphonic poem was created in the nineteenth century.

Women began to play prominent roles in the performance of music both in the home and at court during the Renaissance.

The expansion and reworking of a theme within a composition is called thematic development.

The expansion and reworking of a theme within a composition is called thematic development.

In which of the following excerpts do you hear the voices singing in imitative polyphony?Excerpt 1Excerpt 2

During the 1830s, which city was the center of the new Romanticism?