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 ...

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

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 ...

Songscription, a startup that uses AI to turn recorded music into musical notation, has raised $5 million in a round led by Reach Capital.

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.

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 ...