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 ...

The writings and music of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) take a contemporary choral turn when conductor-composer Eric Banks leads the Esoterics through “Sybilla: The Complete Hildegard Motets of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, what metalheads have always known has been scientifically proven. Prodigy Education Company analyzed lyrics from popular artists of today and past decades to identify patterns in emotion and ...

(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 ...