The writings and music of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) take a contemporary choral turn when conductor-composer Eric Banks leads the Esoterics through “Sybilla: The Complete Hildegard Motets of ...

For five months, jazz musician Kevin Bales recorded all the notes he played on his keyboard at eleven different live gigs. The recordings weren’t for an album, but for a scientific study into jazz ...

At 33, Jasmine Choi has been called one of the top 10 flutists in history. A child prodigy, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship at 16, became an assistant principal with ...

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process When you purchase ...

CARBONDALE – When Steve Kimock arrived in northern California in the mid-’70s, he believed he had found the musical wellspring. San Francisco’s Summer of Love may have been just a hazy memory at the ...

One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is "Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part ...

A lot of guitarists want to get that “outside” fusion sound into their lead work – something that twists scales in a new and unexpected direction. But learning how to use scales in that way takes some ...

Composers have cultivated a distinct musical vocabulary for space-themed media over 70 years, characterized by sustained chords, suspended tempos, and atmospheric elements like echo and reverb to ...