Nancy Galbraith has been publishing her orchestral musical compositions since 1979. But even four-plus decades is a drop in the bucket, compared to the centuries’ worth of classical music written over ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

Richard Powers' new novel, Orfeo, tells the story of an avant-garde classical music composer who finds himself dabbling in DNA. Like the Orpheus myth that inspired the book's name, this story takes ...

Gateway Acts is an ongoing series on Backbeat in which we examine the music that served as an entry point for our burgeoning musical obsessions, a gateway drug that tuned us in and turned us on. Today ...

A study in Mexico found that classical music influences fetal heart rate, potentially benefiting development. Researchers observed more stable and predictable heart rate patterns in unborn babies ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece ...

Whether your go-to Spotify playlists are filled with country music or blues, rock music or R&B, one fact remains the same: Their inspirations can all be traced back to classical music. And while ...

CINCINNATI -- What do you with a product you've poured your creative energies into, that sounds really great, but that you can't find a market for? Give it away, of course. After many attempts to make ...