A manuscript documenting what experts think is the earliest known written example of modern Western music has been discovered – and is up for sale for $80,000. Document enthusiast Nathan Raab, 47, ...

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 ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

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 ...

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