Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...

Recent data analysis reveals an intriguing shift in holiday music consumption patterns. Music-tracking platform Last.fm has uncovered evidence suggesting that the traditional holiday music season may ...

Artist and composer Matthew Wilcock looks for patterns in the everyday and creates music from them. It’s easier to quickly w ...

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 119, The 14th International Society for Music Education: ISME Research Seminar (Winter, 1993/1994), pp. 170-178 (9 pages) The purpose of ...

Nearly 200 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow claimed that “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Over the past several years, an international team of researchers has explored music from ...

The contender with the highest profile is Andris Nelsons’ first recording with the Boston Symphony, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, also part of a cycle. No recognition for frequent nominees Michael ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music of another culture produces no differences ...