Learning to read music with dyslexia is challenging, and terms like Quasihemidemisemiquaver can make the process feel like a cruel joke. Royal College of Art Student Alexandra Theunissen's lifelong ...

Tim Kimbrough, the self-proclaimed Thomas Edison of black American keyboard, is living hard. He’s short $55 on rent for his apartment, which consists of three rooms and a kitchen above a rental office ...

A musician shows off a book of musical scores of Nanyin, a traditional music genre that still uses the gongchepu method. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY Guido of Arezzo, a music theorist in medieval Italy, ...

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.

As a result of a mess argument, in which two music lovers protested that the existing system of notation is too complicated, I endeavoured to produce a simpler method. The result was a 12-note ...