Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

When you think of classical music, you might imagine a tune from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," or one of Mozart's piano concertos. These works are considered foundational to the European classical ...

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Sound on! From conch shells to bone flutes, humans have been making musical instruments for tens of thousands of years. What did prehistoric music sound like? Follow us on a journey to find the oldest ...

A new alliance in the name of music and merit is taking shape in the ancient heart of Naples. The Rotary Club Naples and the ...

Jazz critic turned music historian Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is a dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation. In what he has described as a popularized ...

Armand D'Angour has received funding from the British Academy, from the University of Oxford, and from Jesus College, Oxford. In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the ...

Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman empires? Thanks to a groundbreaking new study by architecture professor Dan C ...

Where did Western music come from? Most historical accounts credit composers with the first formations of simple tunes, which eventually led to “early music” and later classical music and the many ...

For over a thousand years, Yanguan has witnessed the rise and fall of the Qiantang tides, an awe-inspiring event that has ...

Above, the ceiling was done up in silver, beige and blue like frosting on a wedding cake. Below, at the lip of the stage, a tall man in a black suit and white bow tie leaned forward with a tip about ...