Modern classical music is so widely disliked by audiences because the human brain struggles to find patterns it needs to understand the compositions as music. So, let us start at the beginning. Music is what the human brain recognises as music: if it ain’t so recognised then it’s noise. Humans do not recognise “modern music” as

I draw to your attention an informative and powerful essay by Guido Fackler on music in the Nazi camp system. It deals both with music as an instrument of domination and torment and with music as 'a defense against the...

Following the correspondence in The Citizen recently re music in public places I sent this response this morning: Photo: Moss Barbara Gardiner's call for action against music and news in public places is to be welcomed (The Citizen letters 15/09/08). The Green Party peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley in 2006 introduced a Private Member’s Bill to ban piped music and televisions in public areas of

Feargal Sharkey, the chief executive of UK Music, the music industry trade body, says that he is confident that the Digital Economy Bill will be passed before the general election.

DOVES, Feargal Sharkey and Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis join politicians to discuss the impact of the election on music in a BBC 6 Music debate at 3pm tomorrow.

The influence of recording companies, commerciality and marketing upon popular music is so often commented upon as to be part of the mainstream consensus. To a certain extent the development of alternative distribution networks parallel to the record companies in the late 1970s, and the more recent changes in technology that allow music to be advertised

One policy proposal in the pantheon of measures the music industry would like ISPs to take includes a monthly charge to some or all customers to 'allow' them to download illegal music. The revenue would be given to music companies.Its not clear which 'companies' exactly, these funds would go to. One assumes it might be a little tricky to recompense indie outlets. Then again they don't pay lobbyist...

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From Glenn Gould to Peter Pears and Maria Callas: the indefatigable Terry Teachout presents his list of 25 essential classical recordings. In a way, it's also an elegy for the music industry of old: It may well be that performances of comparable quality and individuality continue to be given today, but if so, they will go unheard by the music lovers of tomorrow, for with rare exceptions they ...

Two little nuggets: From his earliest days, George Lascelles was blessed with an extraordinary ear for music and interest in facts about music, an eccentricity which prompted his uncle, the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor), to remark: “It’s very odd about George and music. You know his parents were quite normal —