from Oxford University highlights how, although music evolved 500,000 years ago, speech and language started developing a mere 200,000 years ago. It’s clear that the neural networks of both music and ...

Picture Goethe’s Gretchen, seduced and abandoned by Faust, dolefully alone at her spinning wheel. Her foot automatically operates the treadle that keeps the wheel spinning, but her mind is adrift amid ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Learning to play a new instrument can be exciting, filled with hopes of playing great songs and even composing your own music. Picking up a guitar for the first time leads to a big question: what's ...

For the first time in three millennia, a Babylonian hymn that survived only as damaged cuneiform has been heard again as ...

The Western hemisphere is familiar with musical giants like Beethoven and Mozart and the beautiful compositions they left behind on the five-lined staves in treble and bass clef. Yet long before this ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by When composers publish their scores or prepare them for performance, they need an editor — a role that rarely enjoys the classical music limelight. By ...

A MODERN writer has declared that the orthodox musical notation is “in some of its elements, foolishly illogical and unnecessarily complicated” (W. II. Anderson, in “The Musical Companion”, Gollancz, ...

LORD BRABAZON'S appeal (NATURE, May 16, p. 554) for a simplified musical notation particularly interested me inasmuch as I have encountered all the difficulties he mentioned in learning to read music.