Music culture has always been about more than sound. It is about timing, restraint, and emotional build-up. From the way an ...

A topic of discussion that won’t cool down among music fans and critics recently is that pop songs just keep getting shorter and shorter. In these debates, there is always one culprit responsible for ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

I've lived with a lot of musical insecurity in my life. I like a song I can sing along to. I like a traditional song structure where we move through a couple of verses but all the while we're building ...