Before radio turned out pop hits left and right, paper and pen advancements in the 1300s led to an increase in song notation. Graeme Boone, director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ...

In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation Jimmy Stamp The score for John Cage’s indeterminate ...

Most professional classical singers are able to perform music written in the five major languages of opera: French, German, Italian, English and Russian. But Aram Tchobanian, a singer who lives in ...

When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

The programming software that professor Daniel Jones used for his honor’s music courses was a little outdated—the program was stored on floppy disks. With his students in mind, he decided to change ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...