Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

What Rodgers and Hammerstein, then later filmmakers, changed about this classic. — -- “The Sound of Music” has remained one of the most iconic films in history since it was released 50 years ago.

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British singer Ella Goulding participated in the Sounds Right campaign last year, as seen in this billboard in Leicester Square in London. We’re living in a world where the sounds of nature are often ...

This course examines everyday life through our experiences of music, sound, and noise. Because the field of the sociology of music is as broad as the world of sound, we will focus on the production, ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...