Music

Concerto grosso is a term for a concerto of the Baroque period. This piece contains three soloists: two recorder players and one violinist. You might recognize this music when you listen to it. The recorders sound like angels chattering while the violin plays continuously; these two instruments together make one beautiful melody.

Baroque is a style of Western European music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. The word “baroque” originates from the Portuguese barroco which means ‘”imperfect pearl.” We can understand why it’s called a pearl because it is beautiful. Then why is it called ‘imperfect’? Well, this is my thought: Baroque music obviously sounds beautiful, but […]

Once there was a man who asked a composer to compose his music. The man wanted it to be shorter than contemporary music and to sound like baroque music. Although this is a contemporary piece, its length, lightness, and beauty are baroque.

There’s a piece called ‘Pifa’ in the middle of Handel’s ‘Messiah’, which is played only by the orchestra. The ‘Pifa’, which takes its name from the shepherd-bagpipers, was used as a music title not only by Handel but also by other contemporary composers. It was a kind of convention. Corelli, a composer of the Baroque […]

I want to live in a beautiful and meaningful way, but it’s not as easy to do as it is to say. We end up living an ordinary life without any color, and we regret it. However, Bach says this one thing for us: Even though our life is colorless and ordinary, the living itself […]

You may laugh when you listen to this music, but if you pay more attention to it, you will realize that it’s quite interesting. That’s how attractive modern music is; you keep falling for it again and again