The 21st is the second century for music conservatories and contemporary concert composers to put forth the notion that atonal music is preferable to the tonal music that defined western civilization ...

This study investigated the effect on kindergarten children of same/different discrimination techniques, sex, readiness training, and tonal patterns trained with songs or no songs on one aural ...

Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...