Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles ...

“We picked the most celebratory piece in the whole repertoire that everybody knows even if they don’t know classical music,” he ... known as “Ode to Joy.” Caulkins will lead a full ...

John Suchet, Hans Rhieburg and Susan Greenfield reflect on the impact of Beethoven's last symphony 'Ode to Joy ... her world from gloom to joy. Series about music that makes the hairs stand ...

GLUCK+ took inspiration from Gregorian sheet music, particularly “neumes,” a square notation that indicates individual musical notes. The tower’s punched window openings were conceived as ...

The retired farmer said he started playing trumpet ... an interest in music." When the weather is nice, Anson plays outdoors, and the sound carries, said Malott, spreading some joy around the ...

Drama On One will broadcast Eternal Lanes of Joy, written and directed by Pat Collins, at 8pm on Sunday 30 March on RTÉ Radio 1 - listen to more from Drama On One here. More stories on Culture ...

Entwined in my earliest memories there is a beat, a rhythm — a near constant synthesis of sound. Our family home was seldom silent — music flowed through our high mountain halls, augmenting our every ...

Once she graduated in 2012, she went on to study classical trumpet at Vanier College, play principal trumpet in the Westmount Youth Orchestra and obtain degrees in both music and education from ...

Poet and writer Oswald Okaitei is one of the people who have expressed their immense joy over the special feat chalked by the Vice-President.

Often regarded as one of the most masterful pieces of music of all time, Beethoven’s Ninth was his final complete symphony and features the famed final movement titled “Ode to Joy.” ...

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra turn Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” into a climactic tour de force. Independent of its original 1824 symphonic setting, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has become ...