The women from history whose music we hear today were often the daughters of musicians, receiving training from childhood and ...

uDiscover Music uncovers the best songs inspired by books. Going back to the dawn of civilization, stories were songs: Homer’s celebrated epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were initially ...

and that’s to encourage people to listen to the music. Every one of these books does just that. They range from the more scholarly end of the spectrum to the passionate and personal. Each one is ...

Caroline Sanderson reports on the latest and perhaps most insightful book to explore the phenomenon that was the Lennon and ...

Hoyle’s dictionary, published in 1770, was one of the many kinds of instructive books on music to reach the English public during the eighteenth century. There is nothing distinctive about it and, in ...

Once upon a time books about rock music were a rarity, these days they just might be a dime a dozen. Quite a few of those are fresh out of print recounting the rise (and possibly the fall ...

You love all 274 of Taylor Swift's songs; you can even recite the lyrics by heart, but do you know the inspiration behind them? A number-one best-seller, this book features the stories behind each ...

The links between music and maths have been explored in a fascinating new book from former University of Huddersfield lecturer Dr Julia Winterson. There are strong links between music and mathematics ...