Art music: serious, classical, and modern musical traditions Art music Art music designates music with a written, cultivated tradition—commonly including Western classical music and serious modernist works—distinct from popular and folk musics.
Billy the Kid (ballet) One-act ballet by Aaron Copland with a libretto attributed to Lincoln Kirstein, premiered 1938; a landmark American ballet combining frontier themes, dance, and a popular orchestra…
Boston Symphony Orchestra Major American orchestra founded in 1881, based in Boston; noted for its Symphony Hall residency, summer home at Tanglewood, distinguished conductors, premieres, recordings and the…
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C minor, Op. 67 (1804–1808) is one of the best-known works in classical music, famed for its four‑note motif and dramatic four-movement des…
