Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Musical Theatre Melodies' tribute to Lorelei will be broadcast on January ...

Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court ...

This will be preceded by an interview with the leading man of the original Broadway production – Bill Hayes, who will share his memories of the musical and its original performers, Rodgers and ...

The complexity of the melodies of the most popular songs each year in the U.S.—according to the Billboard year-end singles charts—has decreased since 1950, a study published in Scientific Reports ...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Music history is littered with all forms of musician, some of whom have a good understanding of ...

The ancient classics of Western literature — Homer, Sophocles, Euripides — were written to be sung. But what does Greek music from 2,500 years ago actually sound like? And how could a modern reader ...

In a TEDx talk released in January, copyright lawyer, musician, and programmer Damien Riehl pulled out a hard drive. That drive contains every possible melody generated from an algorithm he created ...