When teaching listening skills to my music appreciation students at Colorado Mountain College, I notice that sonata form, the pinnacle of the classical-era obsession with formal elements in music, is ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

The composer’s Third Cello Sonata, an underrated masterwork, cuts up the musical form and reassembles it anew. By Edward Docx Every summer (if that is what we are calling this), I programme a small ...