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What makes the Star Wars soundtrack so good? An analysis of John Williams’ music.

What makes the Star Wars soundtrack so good? An analysis of John Williams’ music.

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What is the ‘secret chord’ mentioned in Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’?

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How good is Billie Eilish’s singing voice, from a classical music perspective?

How good is Billie Eilish’s singing voice, from a classical music perspective?

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Three Lions lyrics, melody and instrumentation: Just how good is Football’s Coming Home?

Three Lions lyrics, melody and instrumentation: Just how good is Football’s Coming Home?

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The greatest classical music drops

Six of the biggest dance floor ‘drops’ in classical music history

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Music theory song

One song that teaches you everything about music theory

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Why do we call classical music ‘classical music’?

Why do we call classical music ‘classical music’?

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‘We are Britain’ song analysis

Top composer analyses ‘patriotic’ One Britain song the government wants all schoolchildren to sing

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Cats teach musical terms

13 cats who will accurately teach you musical terminology

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When Leonard Bernstein sang the Beatles and the Kinks to elegantly teach the ‘Mixolydian’ mode in music

When Leonard Bernstein sang the Beatles and the Kinks to elegantly teach the ‘mixolydian’ mode in music

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Israel Eurovision contestant Eden Alene sings a B6 whistle note

Listen as Israel’s Eurovision singer produces a super-high B6 note, the highest ever in the competition

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Ivan Fischer improves 'Happy Birthday'

Conductor completely tears apart ‘Happy Birthday’ and makes it a million times better

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Musical terms: A glossary of useful terminology

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A piano annotated by the 12 note names used in Western music.

Why are there only 12 notes in Western music?

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Modes: What are they and how do I use them?

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Nina Simone & JS Bach

Nina Simone plays a stunning Bach-style fugue in the middle of one of her classic songs

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Alfred Schnittke gravestone

Composer Alfred Schnittke basically has the greatest gravestone ever

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Latest quizzes

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Are you a diehard classical music fan? Take our tricky quiz and find out

Only diehard classical music fans can pass this quiz

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QUIZ: Can you unscramble these iconic classical composer names?

QUIZ: Can you unscramble these iconic classical composer names?

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Can you name these blurred-out musical instruments?

We blurred these 15 musical instruments, but any real music geek will still recognise them

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Latest in humour

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People have been sharing their four-word classical music horror stories and it’s hilarious

People have been sharing their four-word classical music horror stories and it’s hilarious
No one believed Mozart was only nine years old until he started playing with a cat

No one believed Mozart was only nine years old. Until he started playing with a cat, mid-performance.

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Oboe rings stock photo fail

A jewellery advert with a model ‘playing’ the oboe is baffling the woodwind world