SOME time ago — it is full fifteen years since — I broached a theory in regard to music which none of my fellow-devotees of the art — none at least that I heard of—received with favor. It was that ...

How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights by looking at an unlikely source -- sign language -- a newly released linguistic analysis concludes. How do we detect the meaning of ...

Music students are driven both by career ambitions and by a strong personal relationship with music. At the same time, ...

Can music be propaganda? Torture? How about a tool of manipulation, disorientation, and oppression? “Shift: Music, Meaning, Context” contemplates how music changes in form and interpretation as it ...

Music holds meaning. Sometimes this meaning is personal—we listen to songs that remind us of a memorable time, or we select that one song on the playlist because it gets us into a certain mood or ...

With a hum surrounding me, I begin: the radiant and robust Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, expanding and growing, intensifying with each bowstroke. As I reach the animato, I remember the purrs of ...

Music holds meaning. Sometimes this meaning is personal—we listen to songs that remind us of a memorable time, or we select that one song on the playlist because it gets us into a certain mood or ...