Iran’s traditional music carries messages of beauty, joy, sorrow and love to the world. Introduction Weaving through...
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The perpetually contemporary Williams, as Ellington famously described her, mastered the language of swing. By Natalie Weiner...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
Harper’s songs were lyrics composed in ancient Egypt to be sung at funeral feasts and inscribed on...
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music...
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...
Alcohol played a central role in early modern life, occupying much of the time of both law...
Examining the important role of music in ancient Greek cult practices. By Dr. Jana Kubatzki Research Associate in...
Detail of A carole: shawms and bagpipes played from the gallery to accompany dancers, including Courtesy and...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their...
Will learning sax make you better at French? Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton, CC BY-NC-ND Music is what penetrates most...
By Austin Brown (left) and Alex Mensing (right) / 11.30.2017 Brian Eno’s creative activities defy categorization. Widely...
By (left-to-right) Dr. N. Alan Clark, Dr. Thomas Heflin, and Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Clark: Director of...
Carter And King Jazzing Orchestra, 1921 / Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.01.2018 Historian...
Initial G: The Assumption of the Virgin, about 1392–1402, Niccolò da Bologna, from the Gradual of Niccolò di...
By Dr. Elizabeth Kramer Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Music History University of West Georgia Introduction and...
This sarcophagus depicts a variety of ancient musical instruments, including the tympanum (drum), flute, and kymbala (cymbals)....
A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing...
Charlie Nguyen/Flickr/Creative Commons By Richard Kunert / 04.20.2016 PhD Candidate Donders Institute Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
Lauren C/Flickr/Creative Commons By Princess Ojiaku / 01.14.2016 Adele’s heartbreaking ballad Hello, about a lost lover, has topped the Billboard Hot...
Francis Barraud [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons By Melissa Pipe / 03.30.2017 A Marvin Duchow Music Library...
By Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos / 09.10.2016 Sociologist Have you ever had a song playing in your mind...
“I’m a Dylan professor and a Dylan fan,” says Harvard Professor Richard Thomas, who teaches a popular...
Women and children participate in a drum circle in El Cajon, California. Studies have shown that recreational music-making in...
A new study suggests that listening to happy music promotes more divergent thinking—a key element of creativity....
Sarah Vaughan by William P Gottlieb. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Pavlo Shopin / 11.15.2017 Lecturer in...