Anyone who plays an instrument – or has shared a house with a musician – will be familiar with the maddening nature of repetitive practice. Many piano players have bought Charles-Louis Hanon’s The ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British friend Allen, inviting him to a music festival. When the US ban on TikTok briefly ...

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...

Patricia Lockwood travels through the internet and wonders why we're talking like this.

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played ...

Christopher Snow Hopkins is a writer and editor in Amsterdam. The point of the show isn’t to prove that reproductions fail to do justice to the original. The curators argue instead that reproductions ...