Music has always been an important part of my life. My dad was a musician who also sold and tuned pianos, and I spent my high-school years as a piano teacher. I was known among parents in my community ...

Singer, songwriter, and producer Hosono Haruomi has been breaking new musical ground for more than half a century. Writer Monma Yūsuke explores the essence of his approach to music, from his ...

THE late Horatio Parker once said, in the way of a witticism, ‘There are no musicians in this country’; and to my intimation that there must be some near-musicians he replied, after some deliberation, ...

A side-glance at the construction of a drama will help to illustrate and interpret this phenomenon. The drama, too, unfolds itself through the medium of time, and uses the mechanism of logical and ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains the ...

I have witnessed a strong disdain toward popular music and any artist that is adored by the masses. This elitism is different from a simple dislike or lack of connection with a specific song. It is a ...

Over twenty years into her tenure as the poetic, canonical singer-songwriter of contemporary R&B, Alicia Keys is still turning corners in her music career. The classically-trained artist began ...

"Specialists on ancient civilizations could each give you examples of music from their particular areas of expertise, but one could always go back further." Reading time 7 minutes People talk about ...

Perspectives of New Music is an international professional journal. It is an independent journal, incorporated as a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation, published continuously since 1962. We publish two, ...

A part of me has always felt guilty about loving musical theater. I have wondered whether I lacked some kind of sophistication, drinking in a general idea that operas by Verdi, Donizetti and Bizet are ...