Learning to play a new instrument can be exciting, filled with hopes of playing great songs and even composing your own music. Picking up a guitar for the first time leads to a big question: what's ...

Learning to play an instrument has long been linked to improved reading skills among children, and we may finally understand ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...

Duke is launching a new minor targeted towards all music lovers, regardless of whether they can read musical notation. The department of music will begin offering the minor in music, listening-focused ...