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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Music is a concept that almost defies definition yet is regarded as a cultural universal. At its most basic, music is an art form made by combining sounds – vocals or instrumental – to express emotion ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...