Meshell Ndegeocello, a 10-time Grammy-nominated singer-bassist-songwriter, puts her muse before her paycheck. An artist who doesn’t consider genre, Ndegeocello moves freely between jazz, rock, soul, ...

Over twenty years into her tenure as the poetic, canonical singer-songwriter of contemporary R&B, Alicia Keys is still turning corners in her music career. The classically-trained artist began ...

A part of me has always felt guilty about loving musical theater. I have wondered whether I lacked some kind of sophistication, drinking in a general idea that operas by Verdi, Donizetti and Bizet are ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

Harmony seems to be a recurring theme in the lives of Kandi Bartling, Betty Brown and Julia Vindasius. But the a cappella harmony the women create together only is part of the story. They bring ...