What makes a great Christmas number one?
What do the Christmas chart-topping songs by Mr Blobby, Rage Against the Machine and Band Aid all have in common?
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Scoring the Shoreline
George Revill considers the synergy between sound waves and ocean waves - how the coast of Britain has inspired the...
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How did Aretha Franklin inspire the civil rights movement?
By Leah Kardos
Aretha Franklin's death last week saw the loss not just of a sublime singer, but also one of key figures in the US...
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20 Aug 2018
Inventing the record business
As Spotify prepares to float itself, Eva Moreda Rodríguez hails their distant ancestors. Uncover the early years of...
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27 Mar 2018
Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
With a powerful ballad and a refusal to bend the knee to his record label, Rod Stewart was an early, unapologetic...
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21 Sep 2017
Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?
Eleanor Spencer-Regan explores the common thread between Look What You Made Me Do and Lady Lazarus
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20 Sep 2017
Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Dr Helen Czerski takes us on a sonic odyssey through the sounds of the universe – to reveal what the physics of sound can tell us...
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13 Sep 2017
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01 Aug 2017
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
By Emma Sutton
Virginia Woolf once wrote that music was "nearest to truth", and it was inarguably a major influence on her work....
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18 Jul 2017
After Manchester: Can you make venues safer?
By David Lowe
The bombing of a crowd leaving a venue can be hard to prevent. David Lowe asks if we need new strategies.
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24 May 2017
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05 Feb 2016
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
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Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
Music is created to be performed, in most cases for an audience, whether in a concert hall, at a street fair or through a radio. But how those...
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Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
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