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A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

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Apple has announced Apple Music Classical, an upcoming standalone app that is dedicated to streaming classical music. According to the company, the app will have “the world’s largest classical music ...

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Apple has acquired 50-year-old record label BIS Records, the Swedish company’s founder, Robert von Bahr, announced Tuesday. The purchase of the classical music-focused label follows Apple’s late March ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

When the developer Erik Kemp designed the first metadata system for MP3s in 1996, he provided only three options for attaching text to the music. Every audio file could be labeled with only an artist, ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

She doesn’t have the name recognition of Beyonce or Taylor Swift, but Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon won a Grammy award last night for composition. Higdon is one of the more popular names in ...