All melodies and harmony in Western music is typically built from just 12 notes. Whether it’s a sumptuous symphony , flourishing concerto or your favourite song, it will contain 12 familiar tones – ...

If you haven’t heard of Liszt’s “Poetic and Religious Harmonies,” you’re not alone. Performances and recordings of the 10-movement cycle, nearly an hour and a half of music for solo ...

To understand melody and harmony, you have to know what those terms mean. Let’s start with melody, the easy one. If people ever refer to the ‘tune’ of a track, they mean the melody. Harmony is a bit ...

National Sacred Harp singing convention opens in Birmingham, keeping alive archaic shape-note harmonies (slideshow and video) Updated: Jun. 16, 2011, 7:25 p.m.

From family harmonies to pop a cappella and a Chicago tribute band, Columbus Friends of Music is closing out the year with pop, rock and country harmony groups.

Matisse’s Radical Harmonies. ... In his essay “Notes of a Painter,” published in 1908, he offered the kind of unpretentious advice that could appeal to any artist starting out: ...