Music Theory

Danish music radio has evolved dramatically since digitization — but how accurately can we measure the shift from music to talk? This study compares painstaking hand annotation of Go' Morgen P3 episodes with a Convolutional Neural Network applied to more than 65,000 hours of P3 broadcasts. Achieve blazing fast classification at 98% accuracy. Discover why the music-introduction tradition vanished, and what large-scale audio analysis really adds to media research.

Young musicians today must record their own compelling audio to succeed, yet earning income from recordings is harder than ever. This research-driven article explores what studio professionals truly do — across producer, engineer, and artistic roles — and reveals why listening skills, artistic direction, and communication matter more than technical specs. Drawing on surveys, interviews, experiments, and a noise artist case study, it shows how music programs can train musicians to become full-fle

From talking drums to TikTok beats, African music has always adapted. But what generative AI takes is the communal soul itself—ancestral timbres turned into statistical noise while copyright law looks blankly on. Kenyan artists face not just lost income, but what researchers call ontological erasure, where indigenous musical knowledge is flattened into silicon never heard of its origins. This is data colonialism's quietest song.

More than two thousand years ago, the Roman architect Vitruvius dared to treat stone as though it could sing. Borrowing directly from the Greek musical theorists Aristoxenus and Pythagoras, he described architectural orders using the same words — taxis, symmetria, eurythmia, and diathesis — that classified rhythmic and scalar genera. His famous comparison of the cosmos to a sambykê (an arched harp) reveals an absolute conviction that building and music obey the same harmonic law. Discover how co

Chopin's legacy isn't confined to concert halls. From Swedish doom metal adaptations to rock guitar arrangements by Guns N' Roses' Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and Jimmy Page's film soundtrack, Chopin's miniature genres now thrive in popular instrumental music. Discover how quotational and transformative layers bridge high-art ideals with pop culture, analyzed through compositions that turn the Funeral March or Fantaisie-Impromptu into metal riffs and tapping guitar showcases.

Jazz is a high art form—but over time, playing only scales and rules can become absurd; true expression comes from feeling. Music now admixes across cultures, as exemplified by Miami’s diversity. Learn how uniting classic genres like funk, jazz, bossa, and classical into something new—was it “FuJaBoCla”?—foretells music's destiny. We compare the role of emotion over intellect, how creativity supersedes math, and examine the secret bond between music technology and the computer as tools for art w

Aesthetic theory typically treats the visual arts as the standard, asking us to stand at a contemplative distance from a fixed object. But what if music served as the paradigm for art appreciation instead? Arnold Berleant, a leading figure in environmental and performative aesthetics, argues that music — through its embodied, dynamic, non-objectual nature — exposes the weaknesses of Kantian disinterest and demands what he calls "aesthetic engagement," a full-field experience that melds composer,

In Venezuela, a vibrant movement called "música de fusión" blends folk traditions with popular music, jazz, and academic influences — without replicating any traditional folk piece. From Aldemaro Romero's "onda nueva" and Hugo Blanco's "Moliendo Café" to Guaco's seasonal-defying gaita and the modern virtuosity of C4 Trío, this fusion of rhythms, instruments, and ideas creates bold new works. Discover how musicians merge folk roots and experimental innovation at the heart of Venezuela’s rich musi

Until recently most Western listeners assumed indigenous musical cultures were fading remnants fated to vanish. Yet in Amazonia, Oceania and beyond those predictions proved wildly wrong. From Wayãpi fathers carving flutes to pass symbolic inheritance to their sons to Weenhayek shamans stitching curative soundscapes in total darkness, traditional musicians have always owned the future — even when columnists lacked a word for it. This perspective calls for a new research direction in ethnomusicolo

Adequacy is at the heart of guiding musical representation: simple ideas expressed simply, complex material supported with rich syntax. That is the principle behind GUIDO Music Notation, a general-purpose, text-based, platform-independent format built for analysis tools, notation software, databases, and web music. This guide walks through the three architectural levels—Basic, Advanced, and Extended—that leverage a flexible event-and-tag system to handle everything from common practice notation