Remember "music appreciation"? Remember when you listened to "Carnival of the Animals" and made crayon drawings of what you heard? Remember the teacher who told you the first four notes of Beethoven's ...

Nintendo has launched a new mobile app called Nintendo Music which features swathes of game soundtracks from across the company’s franchises. Whether it’s The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...