Ellen T. Harris’ new book “George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends” isn’t a conventional Handel biography. The author opens with the composer on his deathbed, in the city where he lived for nearly ...

English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It doesn’t matter whether the music is spontaneously ...

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Before radio turned out pop hits left and right, paper and pen advancements in the 1300s led to an increase in song notation. Graeme Boone, director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

"Mr. Kobbé died before finishing this book, and Miss Katharine Wright supplied material necessary to complete his plan. Other operas have been added to the present edition by Mr. Ferruccio Bonavia and ...

Researchers at the KTH Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a smartphone application that converts simple melodies into notation. The app, which is available now worldwide, provides a ...

The soaring, ocean-wide song of humpback whales is often likened to music, but when researchers first started analyzing the clicks, moans and cries, it took the eye of a mathematician to spot a ...