Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, the action and music in opera was split into short pieces or 'numbers' much like a modern-day musical ...

Pop, or Popular, music is a massive genre which encompasses such an enormous variety of styles of music, and is designed to appeal to such a large age range of people, that it's no wonder it's so ...

Advancing technology enabled the recording of classical music and jazz, which in turn lead to the rise of globe-straddling artists like Pavarotti and Callas. Music in the 20th Century changed ...