Researchers have found that lemurs use the ‘formant tuning’ technique taught to opera singers to reach the high notes.

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A standard piano keyboard could put female (and smaller-handed) players at a distinct disadvantage, according to new Stanford ...

Shostakovich was most definitely a light-and-shade composer. On the one hand, we have the intense, expansive orchestral works, full of grand political gestures and complex musical ideas. On the other, ...

Every weekday from 4pm, Margherita Taylor provides the perfect soundtrack to your afternoon, keeping you company through to the evening with some brilliant classical music. Margherita offers all the ...

As far as Saint-Saëns is concerned, the two big works of 1886 were the Organ Symphony and the Carnival of the Animals. It's one of his most popular works, but Saint-Saëns premiered his ‘grand ...

2. Inspired by Gounod A brilliant student, Bizet won many prizes for his outstanding piano playing. The composer Gounod became a lasting influence on his musical style. Shortly after his 17th birthday ...

The Welsh composer Karl Jenkins – almost as famous for his remarkable moustache as for his music – is, quite simply, a phenomenon in contemporary music. And this, his Mass for Peace, is the primary ...

It's iconic, it's British, it's a seafaring classic - Ronald Binge's Sailing By is everything light music should be. This iconic British tune was composed in 1963 by Ronald Binge. It's one of his many ...

Was Dmitri Shostakovich a stunningly original composer whose music carries the scars of political intervention, or a devoted Soviet citizen who enshrined the glory of Mother Russia in his symphonies?

Meet the Mozart family - the people that were closest to Wolfgang himself throughout his life. In 1756 Leopold Mozart was 37, his wife one year younger and they had daughter who was not yet five. The ...

He may have been the King of Pop, but recent evidence has come to the light that Michael Jackson was working on several instrumental and classical music compositions shortly before he died. US ...