Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the ...

Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and the Civil Rights Movement is to not actually ...

A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra. In the early Classical period, symphonies usually had three movements, but by Beethoven's time, there were often four movements. Beethoven wrote ...