Two pieces of music by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell have been discovered by teams of musicologists in ...

A former Billy Elliot star is suing the Met Police for nearly £600,000 for ruining his dance dreams when a police officer ...

The infamously tempestuous painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio has few surviving paintings from his short and dramatic ...

Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Download 'Violin Concerto in D major Opus 35' on iTunes ...

We explore the origins, history and lyrics of one of the most popular children’s songs in the English-speaking world. Humpy Dumpty sat on the wall is one of the nation’s most enduringly popular ...

Thirteen Redemptoristine nuns at a County Dublin monastery have mastered a viral dance challenge, to “cheer people up” in lockdown. Aged between 28 and 92, the sisters perform the Jerusalema dance ...

It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

Berceuse in Db major Opus 57 Frederic Chopin Download 'Berceuse in Db major Opus 57' on iTunes ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

We take a tumble down history to discover the origins, intriguing meaning and full lyrics of the traditional rhyme. ‘Jack and Jill’ is an 18th-century English nursery rhyme. It tells of a boy named ...

A new study has found classical music, and Mozart in particular, is the most stimulating genre for babies in the womb. Babies in the womb are stimulated by classical music more than other genre, a ...

John Williams proves just how scary two repeated notes can be in this ominous soundtrack. Rarely does a piece of film music seem to so perfectly capture the film's atmosphere. In the case of Jaws ...