Scales are the building blocks of most music. That’s why I – and maybe you – have had to spend interminable hours practicing them, over and over again. They’re the fundamental element of ...

By gathering about 23,000 hours of digitized music into a framework for analysis, researchers hope to discover large-scale patterns.

MUSIC REVIEW By Joshua Kosman, Chronicle Music CriticFeb 5, 2010 San Francisco Symphony's conductor Michael Tilson Thomas poses of photographs, Thursday October 1, 2009, in Davies Symphony Hall ...

Music * The works of Astor Piazzolla, whose tangos draw from jazz, classical and Latin genres, are enjoying new life.

It's much, much smaller than its Stradivarian cousin, but not even the Borrowers, Lilliputians or Blefuscudians are of sufficiently diminutive proportions to take a bow to the Micronium. The tiny ...