Capturing Music: The story of Notation, originated in a challenge from my wife, Peggy. She pointed out that I had written books for general audiences (First Nights, Yale 2000; First Nights at the ...

The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...

Music that hasn't been heard for 1,000 years has been reconstructed from a Medieval musical notation technique lost for centuries. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

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.

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" ...