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Romantic Era: Music Forms and Composers

Music During the Romantic Period During the Romantic period, composers used music to express themselves; it became more emotional and subjective. Composers were inspired by romant[...]

Featured Piano: Yamaha U100SX Silent Series Professional Upright

This sleek professional upright Yamaha piano offers the great sound and reliable design of Yamaha's U1 professional upright, with a 48" cabinet giving you long bass strings for tha[...]

Auld Lang Syne and Happy New Year!

5 New Year’s Resolutions Every Pianist Should Make

The beginning of a new year is fast approaching, and the one thing that comes to the minds of most of us this season is that formidable word “resolution.” We can choose to think of[...]

Composer's Corner: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Although he lived only a short time, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi composed some of the eighteenth century’s most beloved works, among them the sacred duet Stabat Mater and the comic[...]

January Sheet Music

Music from our featured composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and some to ring in the new year! Nina Stabat Mater Aria What Are [...]

Learning and Teaching Tools

December Sheet Music

Here's some music from our featured composer as well as some holiday favorites! Musetta's Waltz from 'La Boheme' One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly &nb[...]

Composer's Corner: Giacomo Puccini

Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy into a family with a long history of music. After the death of his father when he was only five years old, he was sent to study with his uncle Fort[...]

History of Silent Night (Stille Nacht Gesellschaft)

1816 Joseph Mohr creates the text to "Silent Night!" in the form of a poem in Mariapfarr in the Lungau region where he was living at the time. 1818 In the schoolhouse of Arnsd[...]