DURING the peaceful summer of 1900, at the festival of the Society of Swiss Musicians held at Zurich, was produced the symphony in E minor, opus 115, of Hans Huber, a Swiss composer born in 1852. This ...

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Since I carped long and hard about Berlioz and man-splaining, let us go to the root of the issue — program music. Program music is a composition that attempts to portray a specific mood or story. We ...

This resource is a complete KS3 Music Programme Music & Composition Scheme of Work, designed to develop students’ understanding of the musical elements, composition, keyboard skills and listening ...