It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.
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For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
Her new album, ‘Cowboy Carter,’ arrives at a moment when country music’s reputation as overwhelmingly white is finally starting to crack.
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
Orbital resonance is kind of like musical harmony, but systems that display it are far more rare than songs with harmonic melodies.
In 1993, Joel sang, ‘These are the last words I have to say.’ What changed?
The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
Lots of factors can influence your music taste, from your age and where you’re from to the personality traits you have.
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes they use and occupy.
An expert on Ukrainian music and folklore explains how holiday traditions celebrate both centuries of culture and present-day resistance.
On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
For Buffett, escapism was not merely some fiddling flight of fancy. It acknowledged the brutalities and indignities of everyday life.
In many parts of the world, hip-hop has become a way for Muslim artists to assert their belonging and identity.
AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.
On Aug. 11, 1973, a block party in the Bronx spawned a genre that would go on to influence nearly all aspects of US culture – and the music, fashion and art of countries around the world.
Afrofuturism, a mix of science fiction, magic realism and liberation politics, has shaped some hip-hop artists’ work for decades.
Media outlets increasingly construct narratives about collective reality based on what’s happening on social media.
A professor of modern Catholicism looks back at the ways the iconic Irish singer steeped herself in religion, even as she criticized its institutions.