da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Almost all instrumental music written between 1750 and 1900 uses the same scheme, and those who recognise it hear something different from those who do not. It is called sonata form, it sits in... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), “I musici”, 1597. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).People say period instruments and it sounds like a collectors’ matter. It is not. Between a modern orchestra and one that plays with... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Elias Gottlob Haussmann, portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1746. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The fugue is the piece that makes people run, and the reason is always the same: you try to listen to it the way you listen to a song, that is, by following the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Dalla biblioteca, Melos
The title page of L’estro armonico, Opus 3, printed in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger in 1711. In 1711, in Amsterdam, a collection of twelve concertos by a Venetian priest who had never been to Holland is published. It is titled L’estro armonico, Opus 3, and... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 26/08/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
There is a moment, in hundreds of pieces everyone knows, when the music takes a run-up to finish and then does not finish. The harmony gets into position, the ear already knows where it is going, and at the last instant a chord arrives that is not the one expected. It...
