“There’s this precious moment when it’s just you and the piece,” says Anthony K. Brandt, an assistant professor of music at Rice University. “I’d rather dwell on that moment,” he says, than on, say, a ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

Peter Stampfel is an absolute eccentric whose obsession with American popular music in the 20th century is unlike anyone I've ever known. For the past two decades, he's been combing through that rich ...

pt. 1. 1900-1933. -- The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle -- Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality -- Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz -- Invisible men : ...

UPDATE (4/5): Father John Misty has announced a headlining tour in support of his upcoming album, Chloë and The Next 20th Century. The North American run will kick off July 31 at Red Rocks outside ...

Music by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, an early 20th-century Charleston-born Black classical composer, is being brought to light for the first time almost 100 years after his death. Colour of Music ...

This remastered edition of the shimmering recording made by Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony more than 20 years ago is one of many released by Decca and Deutsche Grammophon as part of a massive set ...

These 20th-century pop lyrics really take the cake. In fact, I'd say they're some of the most perfectly written lines in pop music history.