Music has always been an important part of my life. My dad was a musician who also sold and tuned pianos, and I spent my high-school years as a piano teacher. I was known among parents in my community ...

Singer, songwriter, and producer Hosono Haruomi has been breaking new musical ground for more than half a century. Writer Monma Yūsuke explores the essence of his approach to music, from his ...

A side-glance at the construction of a drama will help to illustrate and interpret this phenomenon. The drama, too, unfolds itself through the medium of time, and uses the mechanism of logical and ...

Music is a concept that almost defies definition yet is regarded as a cultural universal. At its most basic, music is an art form made by combining sounds – vocals or instrumental – to express emotion ...