Historians have uncovered what could be some of the earliest musical notation in Western history. The ninth-century ...

A manuscript documenting what experts think is the earliest known written example of modern Western music has been discovered ...

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 ...

English poet Musical sounds exist in time and the time is always now. It doesn’t matter whether the music is spontaneously ...

(RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was ...

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 ...