Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via ...

When singing a round, a mysterious phenomenon occurs. One voice begins the melody, and others follow with a delay. Even as the melodies and lyrics diverge, they sound harmonious, growing richer with ...

The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...

Though this collection contains very fine performances of some of Bach's greatest organ works, the focus of the recording is as much on the instrument on which they are played as on David Goode's ...

Every classical music fan deserves the gift of great, Bachian counterpoint on their birthday. Right? We’ve found the perfect birthday song for the music geek in your life - a quite ingenious fugue on ...

Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die ...

JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...