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Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...

Eyeing the big business of holiday music, a few of pop’s major players are trying to expand the market for Halloween hits. By Marc Hogan When Ashnikko was growing up in North Carolina, their family ...

When John Carpenter was a boy, he found some music paper and started scribbling away “like a crazy person,” he said. His father, a music professor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, ...

The TEAMS Medieval Music in Context series seeks to publish editions, translations, and studies of medieval music-theoretical treatises and literary texts with significant musical engagements, ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

Hicham Chami was one of the last people critic Ted Shen interviewed for the Chicago Reader before he died unexpectedly last month. Chami, who was raised in Morocco, told Shen how he came to play the ...