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This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music

Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound ...
The New School

Drawing Music, Marking Time: The Design, Structure and Impact of Musical Notation

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...
JSTOR Daily

The Development of Sensitivity to Tonality Structure of Music

Tonal schemata are shaped by culture-specific music exposure. The acquisition process of tonal schemata has been delineated in Western mono-musical children, but cross-cultural variations have not ...
WBUR

Angie K makes waves in country music's sound and structure

Country music often tells stories of small-town America. Angie K is bringing new sensibilities to the genre by blending her Salvadoran roots, bilingual lyrics and musical inspirations. Her latest EP ...