The study of music theory and popular music analysis continues to evolve as scholars integrate traditional analytical frameworks with innovative methodologies. Recent work in the field has broadened ...

Meshell Ndegeocello, a 10-time Grammy-nominated singer-bassist-songwriter, puts her muse before her paycheck. An artist who doesn’t consider genre, Ndegeocello moves freely between jazz, rock, soul, ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains the ...

A side-glance at the construction of a drama will help to illustrate and interpret this phenomenon. The drama, too, unfolds itself through the medium of time, and uses the mechanism of logical and ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. Music is a concept that almost defies definition yet is regarded as a cultural universal.