When you learn to read music, it’s much like learning to read a book. While the notes on the stave go up and down to indicate pitch, we also read from left to right, and that’s the element which ...

There are few things more daunting than sitting in front of a large stack of complicated sheet music. Whether you’re a pro looking to brush up on the basics or if you’re totally lost after falling ...

This class introduces students to the fundamentals of music including notation (staff, clefs, time signatures, measures, etc.), note reading, rhythm reading, music history, and more. This class ...

New research shows that spontaneous eye blinks naturally sync to the beat of music, revealing a hidden form of auditory-motor ...

Phyllis Joffe reports on David Chevan & Warren Byrd. The two jazz musicians look back to their respective heritages to set Jewish and African American worship music to jazz rhythms. The point of the ...

In “Revolutions in American Music,” the Florida State University musicology professor Michael Broyles argues that forces of race and technology combined to create new national sounds during three ...

The October 1989 issue of Spy magazine included a cartoon: David Byrne and Paul Simon in a jungle wearing safari attire, holding microphones and glancing suspiciously at each other as musicians in ...