Amal Biskin has been playing the violin since age 5. Her parents, both musicians, required it. “It was as fundamental and obligatory as doing my homework or brushing my teeth,” she said. A New York ...

Earlier this year a story ran in the UK press which revealed that it was Heather Mills who taught her daughter music, not her ex-husband, Sir Paul McCartney, because he cannot read music notation.

A melody is more than just a sequence of notes. Rhythm, variations in loudness and the length of musical phrases all enhance the sequence of notes to make a melody “original”. Each of these adds a ...

It is my duty and privilege to notify you, dear reader, of a notable event on Thursday evening at La Renaissance restaurant that has achieved a certain notoriety. I refer, of course, to the notorious ...

University of Southern Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Last week’s announcement on the existence of gravitational waves confirms something philosophers and musicians ...