Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

What does the 'Yo' in 'Yogaku' actually mean?The West? The Pacific? Across the sea?We use the term so casually that we don't ...

Green wrote a book on singing cowboys and is featured in Ken Burns' new PBS series about country music. He says he fell in love with Western music from an early age: "It completely entranced me." This ...

Watch Indian dancers perform high energy routines to Western music, highlighting dynamic choreography, coordinated steps, and ...

The state of music at the end of the ancient world -- Gregorian chant and secular song in the Middle Ages -- The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and Italian ...