Music lessons perfectly pitched for you

Alexandre Desplat is a highly regarded French film composer known for his evocative and diverse musical compositions that enhance the...

Next month I’ll be doing profiles on ten of the giants in film music - in the meantime here is a quiz to see how much you’ve learnt about...

The use of music in film has a similar impact as it does for theatre. In this blog I explore some of the different elements of film...

In the previous blog I wrote about how music could be used in theatre and while musicals are known for their prominent use of music,...

Music has been used in theatre for many years. In this blog I explore some key aspects of music in theatre. Music plays a crucial role...

In this blog I give a rundown of the different eras of Musical Theatre and give some examples of titles that were prominent in that era....

We now come to music for stage and screen. This short series of blogs will cover broad strokes without going into too much detail on...

Okay I forgot one of the key vocal music genres! Here we look at Reggae… Reggae originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. It evolved...

We’ve come to the end of our short alphabetical trip around vocal music. Here’s a quiz to see what you’ve picked up. A downloadable...

Our penultimate stop on this alphabetical train ride of vocal music has reached rock music. Rock music is a genre of popular music that...

Continuing our alphabetical exploration of vocal music we come to oratorios. What It Is An oratorio is a religious version of an...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music we have arrived at Opera. In Brief Opera is a form of theatrical art that combines music,...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music today we look at pop music. Pop music, short for popular music, is a genre that...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music, today we come to Mass and Motet. Mass From the Latin “Missa,” Mass is a sacred musical...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music today we look at lieder and madrigals. Lieder Lieder is the German word for "songs." It...

Jazz can be instrumental or vocal, or both. As this is a vocal series of blogs I’m going to write about the use of the voice in jazz....

Continuing our alphabetical trip through vocal music today we stop at funk and gospel. Funk Funk music is a genre that originated in the...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music. Today we look at disco and folk (not everyday those two are talked about side by...

Continuing our alphabetical look into different vocal music, today we are looking at Cantata, Chorale, and Choral music. Cantata A...

Continuing our alphabetical look at vocal music we come to Blues. The blues originated in the United States, primarily in the African...