The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

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Black Sherif, who merges Afrobeats, highlife, drill and more, shares the making of 'Iron Boy', his most definitive album yet.

A new study led by Dr. Kateřina Chládková of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University reveals that adults can quickly tune in to the melodic and rhythmic features—known as prosody—of unfamiliar ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard is ...

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Four blind and low-vision veterans composed original songs dedicated to the people they love, through the Lullaby Project.

Born into a family of luthiers, Rishab Rikhiram Sharma has always been around music. However, his identity as a sitarist has ...

This allows for long-form and variable-length music generation and editing controlled by text and melody prompts. For more precise and fine-grained melody control, we introduce a novel top-k ...