For five months, jazz musician Kevin Bales recorded all the notes he played on his keyboard at eleven different live gigs. The recordings weren’t for an album, but for a scientific study into jazz ...

NEW YORK – “Violent congestion, inexpressible terror, failure of breath, momentary unconsciousness – these overtake me in quick succession, though I am better than I was,” composer Robert Schumann ...

My music career was short. I began playing the clarinet in fourth grade with the sweetest band teacher. By eighth grade, I was cringing through band practice with a different instructor -- one who was ...

Music is not a mathematical equation, nor a scientific law, where a singular, incontrovertible solution exists. Nor is its meaning hermetically sealed within its structure. The meaning of music is a ...

It's no secret that Eminem has a way with words. In fact, a recent study conducted by lyrics site Musixmatch has recognized his vocabulary as the largest in the music industry. By Paley Martin It’s no ...

(CNN) -- Music artists Eminem, Kanye West and Bob Dylan have something surprising in common. According to a new study, the trio are among the top five artists with the largest vocabularies in the ...

Is popular music getting dumber? Yesterday, a study released by Andrew Powell-Morse confirmed what most of us already know: that when it comes to lyrics of hit songs, well, it ain’t exactly ...