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What is barbershop music, how is it arranged and sung? You’ve joined the Barbershop Harmony Society. You might have instead joined a church choir, a  symphonic chorus, or formed a small combo sing Central European  folk songs… but here you are in a...

Embed from Getty Images As long as there have been records, there have been concept albums. As early as Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours, with its songs about lost love, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass’ themed albums (Going Places, Whipped Cream...

Some notes from some time ago about professional musicians who attend to language, notably the pianist Jeremy Denk and the composer Nico Muhly. Since I’ve posted recently on Taylor Lautner — the relevance of this will become clear &mdash...

Alex Reed, assistant professor of music theory, history and composition, sits at the piano in his office, the room lit by a couple of lamps casting a soft pink glow. He’s playing an example of the type of music he wrote as a third–grader. Reed, now ...

The Music of Jamaica Despite the tiny size of the island, Jamaican music has long been a powerful force on a global scale. Even ignoring the deity that is Bob Marley and his reggae legacy, the island boasts a wealth of extraordinarily popular genres...