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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...
In Las Vegas, 1970. EPA By Dr. Adam Behr / 08.10.2017 Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music Newcastle...
Coloured engraving after J.T. Balcomb depicting an Edison phonograph with a carbon microphone, 1878 / Wellcome Library...
Photo by Ken Howard By Dr. Eric A. Gordon / 06.01.2017 Almost a decade ago I had...
Lament teacher Pirkko Fihlman wears a traditional Käspaikka scarf during a gathering at her home in Helsinki....
By Dr. Gullög C. Nordquist Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Uppsala University Introduction Music was...
Figure 24.1 The illustrations for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age, drawn by John Held,...
John Lennon – Imagine 04.07.2017 Ever wonder what John Lennon’s “Imagine” looks like? Not the music video,...
Benson Musical Instrument Factory Polishing Room / Musical Instrument Manufacturers Archive, National Music Museum, South Dakota By...
Classical 19th-century six-string guitar / Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves /...
Baroque guitar with new gut strings, detail of bridge. / University of Edingburgh By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro...
16th-Century Spanish guitar / Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves / 12.2015 Professor of...
By Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves / 12.2015 Professor of Music Theory and Guitar Marshall University Introduction Las...
A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.11.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief It’s often argued that everything our ancestors did...