The Musical Clock

The 19th century is the era of choral music. Obviously, before that time much music was written for groups of voices, even for two or more ...

If it ever makes sense to document musical instruments with CD recordings, it is in the case of organs. Such instruments were never part of ...

Consort is the term used for a small instrumental ensemble in music written before 1700, according to New Grove . Such an ensemble could com...

Keyboard instruments have played a major role in European music history and continue to do so in our own time. They came and come in very di...

The violin was one of the instruments that took central stage when in Italy the seconda pratica came into existence. Composers started to w...

2021 was Josquin year: he died exactly 500 years ago. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not really come off, but Josquin hardly needs a ...

In 1973 Peter Ryom published his catalogue of the oeuvre of Antonio Vivaldi. Catalogues of musical compositions can be set up in different...