Life is hard and then you cry in Zhang Ming's "Folk Songs Singing," an intense meller about a teenage girl infatuated with her music tutor. Life is hard and then you cry in Zhang Ming’s “Folk Songs ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

A father and his 18-year-old son—the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot—set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone.

Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because “we can find something we can call music in every society,” says musicologist Yuto Ozaki of Keio University in Tokyo. But did singing ...

The ethereal sounds of traditional Eastern European folk songs aren't typically heard in New Orleans. With multiple, simultaneous voices threading equally through the song, the traditional style known ...