Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman empires? Thanks to a groundbreaking new study by architecture professor Dan C ...

When you think of classical music, you might imagine a tune from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," or one of Mozart's piano concertos. These works are considered foundational to the European classical ...

To open our 20th-anniversary celebration, we look to Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. Before we hear them in our own studio later in the hour, it's the famous Air from Bach's ...

Timothy J. Moore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The Academy of Ancient Music’s St Matthew Passion at the Barbican yesterday was an example of the latter and was up there with the best, if not perhaps benefiting from the acoustic of Edinburgh’s ...

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation. In what he has described as a popularized ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. The short answer is: No one knows who invented music. No historical evidence exists to tell us exactly who sang the first song, or whistled ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

“There’s not much music in my family,” 15-year-old Nora Brown tells American Songwriter about her second full-length album, Sidetrack My Engine. Mentored by folklorist/filmmaker/New Lost City Rambler ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Haines covers wellness, style and beauty. When we’re in search of healing, the five senses are our first line of treatment.