My first circumstantial listening or contact with this classical, instrutmental music, which dates back to 1725, is one subconsciously by accident. More times than I can count, I recall hearing this music in classical and modern movies. This music usually played the foreground position to the smil...

Baroque Music Dictionary Meaning: Baroque (Ba-Rok) a 17th century style of music characterised by extensive use of ornamentation. The English word baroque came from the Italian word borocco, which means bizarre, although a better translation which more accurately reflects the sense, would be e...

The Fitchburg Art Museum is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. For the first time in their history, there is a gallery reflecting it's founder's passions. The art that is now on exhibit is that of Eleanor Norcross. These pieces are from Norcross's own collection and long-term loans fro...

Throughout its history, music has developed into cycle. This cycle is a return of fundamental and traditional ideas of an earlier time transposed into the present. It represents a "style revolution" in which a simple structure further develops to become a more complex system. At this ...