THE late Horatio Parker once said, in the way of a witticism, ‘There are no musicians in this country’; and to my intimation that there must be some near-musicians he replied, after some deliberation, ...

A side-glance at the construction of a drama will help to illustrate and interpret this phenomenon. The drama, too, unfolds itself through the medium of time, and uses the mechanism of logical and ...

Music is a concept that almost defies definition yet is regarded as a cultural universal. At its most basic, music is an art form made by combining sounds – vocals or instrumental – to express emotion ...