This short film is from the BBC series, Howard Goodall's Story of Music. Ask your students to select a World Music style, perhaps influenced by their own travels or interests. They could use ...

What we now call impressionist music is a style introduced in late 19th Century France. It was a move away from the long, dramatic and emotional works of romanticism. Instead, the focus was on ...

T he triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art. Precisely what the term implies can be debated, but as Sebastian Smee suggests in his ...