An introduction to the fundamental materials of a variety of music, including Western concert music, jazz, and popular music. Course activities center around interrelated theoretical, compositional, ...

Researchers have created an original music composition for Monday's eclipse. They uses drums, synthesized tones and other sounds to symbolize the movements of the sun and moon and the gradual darkness ...

Musical composition is essentially the creation of sound, frequency and vibration. We create a series of sounds, frequencies and vibrations by putting them together. While there are seemingly ...

A musical composition designed to take well over 600 years to play has gone through its first chord change in seven years. Entitled “As Slow as Possible” (ASLSP), the composition by the late American ...

The score for John Cage’s indeterminate composition “Fontana Mix” (image: BBC Radio 3) With the development of music notation, music was set free from the delicate bonds of oral and aural traditions.

Dave leads a guided tour of three Linux software packages designed for making music by the numbers. Over the next few weeks my articles will focus on software systems designed with special ...

Polestar has teamed up with Moritz Simon Geist to compose a unique musical piece using the car as the instrument. The German composer, performer and robotics engineer has referenced sound samples from ...

Find and develop your own compositional voice and learn how to turn your musical ideas into dynamic performances and published works. Students hone their skills in styles they are passionate about ...